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“The standard narrative” comes up many times in the book. It refers to the common story of love and romantic relationships in our culture, it goes something like this:

Boy meets girls.
They assess each other based on mate value.
Boy gets girl.
Thereafter, the boy is disapproving of her sexual infidelities – while he himself takes advantage of short-term sexual opportunities with other women. (Or to rephrase in my own words: he “cheats”, while she appears to stay faithful).
Pair bond: is the biological term for when a male and a female getting together to form offspring (and/or a lifelong bond).

My top 3 learnings:

1. Our ancestors were promiscuous.

2. “We’re more closely related to chimps and bonobos than chimps and bonobos are related to any other primate — gorillas, orangutans, what have you.” This argument supports the book’s thesis that our bodies were once polygamous, and that it’s only with the rise of culture that we’ve been programmed to be more monogamous – hence the contradictions in how we as humans think about monogamy vs. how we act.

3. The Agricultural Revolution is a period of time roughly around 10,000 years ago when humans went from being hunter-gatherers to farmers. Think about that for a second: Humans went from being wild communities that roamed the Earth together to the people we are now today: land owning, hierarchical and individualized. It was a massive shift.

One of the main arguments of the book is that the Agricultural Revolution not only domesticated animals and farm production, but that it also was the beginning of our sexual domestication.

MY BOOK NOTES
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