Relational
What if jealousy isn't as natural as we think?
For most of human history, our ancestors lived in small groups where sharing wasn't just nice, it was survival. Food, shelter, childcare. Everything was communal. Including, Ryan argues, sexual partnerships.
We didn't descend from apes who mated for life. We descended from highly social apes who shared almost everything.— Christopher Ryan
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The thinker
Author of Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan is an American author and psychologist best known for co-authoring Sex at Dawn, which challenges conventional assumptions about human sexuality and monogamy.
Based on Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores? | TED, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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