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Shitty Brains Create Romantic Love

Sociobiology helps answer the really hard questions…nice post

davidlok:

“If our neurons weren’t such lousy processors and we didn’t need 100 billion of them massively interconnected in order to make a clever brain out of such lousy parts, then we wouldn’t have such a long childhood,” Linden says.

And without that long childhood, he says, evolution wouldn’t have equipped us with the force that bonds parents together to protect their children.

“We wouldn’t have love,” Linden says.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129027124