BIOL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Sexual Jealousy, Female Promiscuity, Domestic Violence
12 Nov 2016
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Deceptive brain how love works; in the moodle notes video. The urge to merge do we crave intimacy ** good clips to watch. In the past marriage had almost nothing to do with love social regulations for status, economic etc reasons. The fitness advantage of pair bonding ideal for the division of labor. Marriage also reduces paternal uncertainty by constraining female promiscuity (good for men). There is also a fitness advantage to cheating adultery is an integral part of the human mating system. Statistics indicate that between 1 and 30 % of babies are adulterously conceived. Paternity uncertainty and the power of sexual jealousy. There have been many cases in history where adultery laws were asymmetrical male infidelity not perceived as bad. Sexual jealousy is one of the most common cause of spousal abuse and homicide worldwide and a common cause of war. And unfortunately this is probably largely a product of biological evolution.
