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Monday, April 10, 2006
· posted at 1:43 AM
In many species with long childhoods, female choice bred males to evolve increasing emotional investment in their offspring...Chimp males offer meat for sex in a kind of courtly prostitution. Homo sapiens males offer diamong rings and drive phallic cars to advertise their ability to provice and Homo sapiens females in modern foraging societies unashamedly demand meat from their lovers. Despite the sperm and edd problem that created radically different breeding strategies, our prolonged childhoods meant we evolved to form intense attachments to whoever we happen to be bodding.
Biologists call this the pair-bond. We've institutionalized it as marriage.
- Joe Quirk, Sperm Are from Men, Eggs Are from Women
"The Real Reason Men and Women are Different"
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