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January 06, 2004

Disappearing through the trees

So I am attempting to capture the momentous feelings our DNA provides us with, to ensure the continuance of the strand I guess, when we experience [as Cole Porter put it] a glimpse of stocking. But why are we so attracted to the glimpse? Vilayanur S. Ramachandran suggests, in his Reith Lectures 2003, that we evolved in highly camouflaged environments [forests and such], and, to ensure our continued interest, as our proposed mate disappears through the trees, our brains are programmed to find every partial glimpse of her to be pleasing, pleasing enough to continue to want to bother.

Posted by john at January 6, 2004 12:24 PM

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