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Polish girls' obsession with marriage [124]
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I agree, it's obvious that our instincts have been formed by evolution to promote survival of mankind. But it's also obvious that we today are less dependent on our instincts to survive (than, let's say, 10 000 years ago).
Today most people have strong bonds to the social environment they live in. I'm not going to start discussing sociological theories. But these social bonds definitely inhibit some of our biological instincts (please note that I wrote
inhibit not
erase or
extinguish). This is a kind of
social evolution, because the bonds to our social environment inhibits our instincts
when they are bad for us. I think that this can be viewed as
survival of fittest, but most fit for the social environment not for the biological environment.
We can also see that people from different cultures are looking for different kind of persons to date, have a nice time in bed (or wherever they think sex is most exciting) with. This differences can't be due to evolutionary mechanisms, because these cultures have existed too short period of time.
I had not heard about Eskimo hospitality, but I read a little now. And it's obvious that it's a behavior that promotes biological evolution (you have a good point here).
Maybe we can agree that both evolutionary and social factors play a great role in choosing partner.
And I will enjoy sex without lying there thinking of Darwin's
natural selection. Even though the theory is interesting.