Love and Desires Actually Started in the Genes
When it comes to the matter of desire, evolution leaves little to chance. Human sexual behavior is not a free-form performance, biologists are finding, but is guided at every turn by genetic programs.
Desire between the sexes is not a matter of choice. for straight men, it seems, have neural circuits that prompt them to seek out women.
Gay men have those prompting them to seek other men.
Women’s brains may be organized to select men who seem likely to provide for them and their children. T
Desire may seem the core of human sexual behavior, but it is just the central act in a long drama whose script is written quite substantially in the genes.
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