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• extra88 9y ago
  > Romance refers to the biologically rooted game It's like you didn't read the comment you're replying to. You do not have good evidence that romance is shaped by evolutionary, rather than cultural, forces. Of course there's a biological motivation for procreation but unless you're going to play semantic games and define "romance" as any activity involved in pursuit of procreation, that motivation doesn't explain specific behaviors.
  • eref 9y ago
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    • extra88 9y ago
      > If it exists "It" being a biological basis for romantic behavior? We've survived this long without know how, or if, biology determines our current romantic behavior, I think we'll be okay. We're not going to go extinct because everyone is fucking robots.
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      • owebmaster 9y ago
        > We've survived this long without know how, or if, biology determines our current romantic behavior Do we? Because I see no evidence of the opposite. Also, culture (and sociology for the matter) is biologically determined.
        • extra88 9y ago
          Humans have existed a lot longer than science or the contemplation of nature vs. nurture. > no evidence of the opposite There's plenty of evidence that romantic behavior is culturally determined. Just look at how much it has changed over the centuries even though, biologically, humans have hardly changed at all. There's also the wide variance between cultures geographically in which we're all biologically the same.
          • owebmaster 9y ago
            Culture is biologic, that is my point.