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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-12-04 21:47, Will Steinberg
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<p dir="ltr">Maybe try and learn more about the universe by
studying native Hawaiian religion. Especially cosmogonies. I've
found that religions around the world tend to retain a similar
universal origin story that is very compelling, abstract, and
similar to the scientific perspective. </p>
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Yes, my ancestors figured out that the world was created when fire
and ice mixed. Then a giant cow emerged from the nothingness,
licking a giant from the ice. When he was murdered the current world
was built from the carcass. Clouds are pieces of brain. Just like in
current science. <br>
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<p dir="ltr">Side question, I wonder, when did humans start having
sex like today--passionately, and with with the pleasure of both
parties considered?</p>
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There is actually some research on this. One relevant paper is
Eastwick, P. W. (2009). Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and
constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating. <i>Psychological
bulletin</i>, 135(5), 794. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pauleastwick.com/s/Eastwick2009PBull.pdf">http://pauleastwick.com/s/Eastwick2009PBull.pdf</a><br>
which suggests you should expect it to have emerged in <i>Homo
erectus</i> about 2 mya. <br>
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Basically, the IMHO dominant view in the field is that romantic love
is a “commitment device” for motivating pair-bonding in humans. We
need it beyond the normal mammalian mothering
instincts/maternal-child bonding because of the long infancy
requires reliable two parent rearing, and evolution likely exapted
the maternal-child bonding system into a pair-bonding system between
the parents.<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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