The process of birth is a strong bonding process between the mother and the child. If evolution chose to use that as the way to create the bonding that makes mothers care a lot about their child describing that as “genes just program us to assume nieces are less closely related than our children” feels really strange.
The process of birth is a strong bonding process between the mother and the child. If evolution chose to use that as the way to create the bonding that makes mothers care a lot about their child describing that as “genes just program us to assume nieces are less closely related than our children” feels really strange.