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“For men, the key issue is paternity. A well-designed parental male will tend to end up investing in his own offspring, rather than the offspring of his good-looking next-door neighbor. And one way to help ensure that this happens is to be easily moved to jealousy – jealousy that leads you to keep a wary eye on your partner and the good-looking neighbor, to do what you can to keep them apart, and to abandon your partner if she strays, or else make life so unpleasant for her that she never does it again. (I’m not condoning any of this, incidentally; I’m just trying to explain it.) You don’t have to understand the evolutionary logic of your jealousy in order for it to do its job; you only have to feel jealous.”
― The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
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