De unde ni se trage

The growing length of childhood coevolved with the enlarging of the brain – which has tripled in size over the last 2.5 million years, since the time of the first tool-making hominids – and with the development of complex bonding, which includes friendship, romantic love, parent-child attachment, and loyalty to a group.

As the brain grew bigger, childhood needed to be longer since there was so much to learn. To keep a vulnerable child alive for many years, we evolved strong bonds between parents and children, between mates, within extended family groups, and within bands as a whole – all in order to sustain “the village it takes to raise a child.” Bands with better teamwork outcompeted other bands for scarce resources; since breeding occurred primarily within bands, genes for bonding, cooperation, and altruism proliferated within the human genome.

Numerous physical, social, and psychological factors promote bonding. Let’s focus on physical factors, and then drill down further to examine two chemicals inside your brain:dopamine and oxytocin. Both are neurotransmitters, and oxytocin also functions as a hormone when it acts outside the nervous system.

Courtesy of Camil Stoenescu, acest eretic pe calea evolutionismului, arza-l-ar focu' sa-l arza in durerile flacarilor care ii vor inghiti pe pacatosi, nu s-ar mai satura ateii astia cu blestematiile lor, cu smintelile lor care strica mintea la lume.

Daca vreti sa aflati mai multe despre adevarata cauza a acestei boli care ne apuca pe toti, cititi aici.

Love is in the air
The heart is so unfair
Beware beware
Love is the air.

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