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Re:Love is biological bribery? by PuppyTailWags on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:56AM (#30362390)
> Everything in human psychology was in fact molded through evolution, so of course it makes sense to look to evolution for potential answers.

I disagree with the sense that evolution has answers to begin with, or that everything in human psychology can be assumed to be touched by evolution. Sometimes weird shit happens and it doesn't prevent you from fucking so it sticks and there's no greater purpose to it.

I feel this understanding of evolution ascribes too much anthropomorphism to the phenomenon.

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Re:Love is biological bribery? by adamsmith143 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:09PM (#30363436)
>Sometimes weird shit happens and it doesn't prevent you from fucking so it sticks and there's no greater purpose to it.

That's how you end up with random maladaptive mutations. But they aren't distributed across a species.

You don't end up with near universal traits in a species without them being molded by evolutionary pressures.

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Re:Love is biological bribery? by yencabulator on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:32PM (#30393176)
A giraffe's elongated laryngeal nerve can be explained by evolution, while still being firmly in the "weird shit happens" category. Explanation != purpose.
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