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Un mensuel canadien écrivait il y a quelque
temps :
« Historians have long insisted
that love itself was a cultural invention, an emotion first conceived
by the courtly poets of Europe some 800 years ago and subsequently
passed on to Europe's idle rich. In time, went this thinking, the
idea of romantic love percolated to the lower classes, who in turn
carried it to colonies far and wide. Such views dovetailed nicely
with modern anthropological thought. [...] Most
anthopologists believed that human behaviour was shaped largely by
culture. Children, they noted, were as impressionable as clay. "It's
a view that there is basically no human nature," says David Buss, a
professor of psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,
"that humans are simply a product of their environment."
Over the past two decades, however, serious
cracks have appeared in those theoretical walls. Influenced by
Charles Darwin, a small but vocal group of social scientists now
suggests that natural selection, not culture, has shaped certain key
human behaviours. Over hundred of thousands of years, they theorize,
evolution has moulded not only anatomy but the human psyche itself,
favouring certain social behaviours, certain states of mind, that
promote survival and reproductive success. In other words, biology
lies just beneath the surface of much human psychology. Could our
romances, they ask, be guided by certain evolved
mechanisms ? »
Heather Pringle, « The Way we Woo »,
Equinox, n 72 (nov-déc 1993), p. 74.
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©Pascal Michelucci
Créé le 28 juillet 1996