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Love. What possible good is the evolution of love? Love contains many traits that are the EXACT OPPOSITE of evolution.



Nonsense..I have seen this repeated over and over, and it is so obviously wrong I can hardly imagine why anyone can argue such a point.

Love is perhaps the feature in human behavior that is most clearly evolutionarily derived. Obviously, love or close bonding between mates is needed to ensure that children can be raised and cared for. Similar pair bondings are seen in many other mammal and bird species. For the parents to work togetehr to rasi the young a close and trusting bond is essential.

Love between other family members, friends, etc, is also selectively advantageous, as close bonding encourages mutual protection within a population. This ensures not only the survival of young and indviduals, but of the population as a whole. All social animals have such bondings, from penguins to gorillas.

To argue that self-sacrifice is not consistent with evolution is also difficult, because clearly an individual's sacrifice may sometimes enable a larger group to survive.

So we see how these traits are all derived from evolution and selection. However, it is also a mistake to attempt to attribute all human behavior to evolutionarly advantgeous traits. Humans and animals do not always act in their best interests.

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