An old sociological or Darwinian theory holds that when we’re looking to gin out babies, we’re biologically propelled toward the partner who’ll color in dull spots in our own genetic code. So when opposites attract, they’re biologically combining to form the perfect offspring
It´s a
pity that these compact and satisfactory explanations are not scientifically
rigorous, because they work as well as fables. Their problem is that they
explain everything in hindsight, they don´t have the capacity of prediction. In
this way, they seem like Psychoanalysis. It would be nice if there were an
evolutionist justification for each old saying or proverb, like ´Think the worst and you won´t be far wrong´, ´Spare
the rod and spoil the child´,… I think it wouldn´t be very complicated, using
Darwin´s theory as an excuse, to explain each topic or maxim
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