XPost: alt.fan.heinlein   
   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10mjpp7$17fp9$1@dont-email.me>, did ldo@nz.invalid   
   deliver unto us this message:   
   > Also, I was contemplating the contrast between the Westermarck Effect   
   > and Genetic Sexual Attraction; the one says that individuals brought   
   > up together, whether related or not, tend not to be sexually attracted   
   > to each other, yet the other says that individuals who are very   
   > closely related (e.g. siblings) who are brought up separately *do*   
   > often end up sexually attracted to each other.   
   >   
   > Can you discern any coherent evolutionary pattern in any of that?   
   >   
      
   We are programmed to bond with people like ourselves --members of the   
   same tribe, with the same assumptions and customs and habits -- but also   
   programmed to avoid members of the same immediate sib, to increase   
   genetic mixing.   
      
   Most of us don't ever meet long-lost relatives, but many of us marry   
   people who resemble our parents.   
      
   --   
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