It's a shame that sociobiology is not given any attention in school.I found it very interesting, even if just as a theory. I feel that ifmore focus was put on the biological aspects of social behavior thenwe could reach a deeper understanding of why we behave the way we doand see where we may be headed if we continue to behave in such away.
I enjoyed the illustration of our predisposition to sweetness and feltit offered a very interesting take on why we tend to be drawn to fat,sugar and salt. Our ancestors maximized their fitness by eating sweetfruits so theoretically the taste for sweets is built into our geneticmakeup (yet I think it is obvious we tend to overdo it as well as tochoose artificially sweet items rather than the former sweet fruits tosatisfy our craving.) If more people were aware of this notion, maybe(just maybe-probably not likely) people would be more inclined to pickup a piece of fruit when they had a craving for something sweet ratherthan a Soda or candy bar, realizing that socio-biologically speakingtheir body is probably looking for something to maximize fitnessrather than to just hit our 'sweet spot.'
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