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From Cellular Selectivity to Romantic Bonding: The Evolution of Love

2026-08-19

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Romantic love can be understood not merely as a cultural narrative or subjective emotion, but as a complex human-level organization of the capacity of living systems to discriminate, filter, and convert information into investment decisions. This article examines an evolutionary continuum extending from selectivity at the cellular level and the regulation of information exchange in hori...

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Literature Corpus work: 795531f0-70bc-5e8c-a6f1-d08054a92539
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10656477/v1

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