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You still never answered my question from before: Since I turned out to be sexually incompatible with my first partner, and sexual satisfaction is extremely important for human hormonal pair-bonding, what should I have done?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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The ideas expressed above are familiar to evolutionists as part of parental investment theory -- male/female pair-bonding is more likely to emerge where offspring are highly dependent.
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist? Matt J. Rossano 2010
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Dating websites are pure testosterone and estrogen, facilitating mating displays and pair-bonding.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Without the ideal longing – grown out of our pair-bonding nature – which first dreams love into being, there's nowhere for its reality to take root.
Love in literature 2011
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The ideas expressed above are familiar to evolutionists as part of parental investment theory -- male/female pair-bonding is more likely to emerge where offspring are highly dependent.
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist? Matt J. Rossano 2010
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Dating websites are pure testosterone and estrogen, facilitating mating displays and pair-bonding.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The ideas expressed above are familiar to evolutionists as part of parental investment theory -- male/female pair-bonding is more likely to emerge where offspring are highly dependent.
Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist? Matt J. Rossano 2010
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During courtship and when pair-bonding, they bray and flap their wings in unison, moving their heads back and forwards as they call, often pointing at the ground.
Black-footed penguin 2010
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Human society is founded on sexual pair-bonding, thus providing two carers for infants.
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Human society is founded on sexual pair-bonding, thus providing two carers for infants.
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