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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each... →
A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.
If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider... →
Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it... →
Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing... →
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We... →