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[!summary]Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University, explains that love evolved to incentivize and reward human cooperation, crucial for survival. Love triggers neurochemical reactions that motivate social relationships and provide joy and confidence. However, this biological bribery can also be exploited, leading to manipulation and coercion. Falling in love can deactivate the brain’s ability to detect deception, possibly to facilitate relationship formation. Ultimately, love’s biological effects can be both beneficial and vulnerable to exploitation, setting humans apart from animals.
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The reason love evolved was to motivate and reward us for taking part in relationships, critical to our survival. That goes for our reproductive partners, children, and extending to our friends. Humans are highly cooperative because we have to be. A species will be solitary unless it absolutely has to cooperate with somebody else.
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Unfortunately, our biology to seek love, crave love, find love, keep love, is a weakness. That visceral need can be exploited, it can be used to make us do things we don’t necessarily want to do. And that’s the cost of love. It can be used to manipulate or abuse or coerce us.
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