Gossiping for Mates | Dr. Tania Reynolds
Species
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The Internal State of a Listener's Mind
The reason and ape like me evolved to feel good about themselves when they look good is absolutely and due to sexual competition. We don't always have to hold conscious awareness of why we're doing what we're doing, but the evolutionary reason that those behaviors were favored so long as we engage in them. So if we help our kin, our family members, we truly feel love for our family members. But the ultimate reason that we help our family members is because they share genetic copies or they share similar genes to us on average.
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