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Like many emotional adaptations (xenophobia, fear of the dark), jealousy is an imperfect and often overzealous call to arms. Thats because the human life span was, until not long ago, perilously short. Evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists believe that our ancestors rarely got a second chance to woo a mate. And the pool of potential dates on Cavematch was in the low two digits. It therefore behooved our ancestors to be hypervigilant about any real or imagined threats to their relationships. Our ancestors succeeded in acquiring mates and guarding them long enough to spawn—those who couldnt are ancestors to no one. It makes sense that humans developed jealousy as a built-in infidelity-detection system in this competitive social cauldron. Okay.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:59:07 +0000

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