最近，我在'政治和人性'这门课上第一次接触到了进化心理学 （evolutionary psychology)。作为心理学的新起之秀，这一学派极其准确地解释了人类许多似乎不符合生存逻辑的行为。‘爱情’就是其中最佳的例子。
人们为什么会坠入爱河？为什么我们会对一个人产生一种不可思议的依恋，对他/她念念不忘，甚至为这个人放弃自己的生命？进化心理学告诉我们，男女之间的爱慕只是为保护下一代的生存而产生的一种生理反应。在几十万年前恶劣的环境中，父亲的存在可以决定一个婴儿和他的母亲的生死。正是大自然的残忍使人类‘进化’出了爱情，让雄性和雌性之产生一种强烈的爱慕。恰恰是这种感情的存在迫使了雄性在交配后留下来陪伴自己的陪偶和婴儿，从中确保了自己的孩子不会被其他寻偶的雄性杀害。
这个理论在我的脑海中简直是晴天雷劈。难道憧憬已久的‘海枯石烂，两情不渝’只是出于生存本能？回想起和H经历过的种种坎坷，心里一片默然。曾经拥有过的幸福和后来的心碎，现在一想也不过是老祖宗遗传下来用来传宗接代的直觉。
oh，除了苦笑，还能做什么？
2 comments:
Just because you know how a rainbow is formed doesn't make the rainbow any less beautiful or meaningful. I personally am amazed at how we've developed the capacity to have such rich emotional lives.
Anyways, the field of evolutionary psychology is very different than the general field of evolutionary biology, and there are a lot more controversial ideas in evo-psych. I would take conclusions from them with a grain of salt.
-Mike M
Hi Mike, I think you're definitely right. We've been reading a lot of evolutionary psychology theories on the origins of emotion, morality, etc, and it's definitely controversial. I personally just find the theories very fascinating because a lot of them are so logical, and they exponentially increase my knowledge of Darwinian thought. ^_^
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