The Role of Genes in Romantic Attraction

When it comes to evolution, it is beneficial to look at it on three different levels of scale. You've got species level, then you've got this sort of intra competition there or intra species competition. And then you could talk about the genes themselves, which kind of is similar to families there. So pair bonding is kind of the, I guess, precursor to romantic love, right? 90% of mammals apparently don't pair up to, you know, rear young. But that's not just raising young as much as trying to bond with someone else who can share your burden. That's where society has come from and we're in a good place now. What do you have an idea