Naked Science Forum
Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Titanscape on 12/06/2009 14:22:00
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My little cat and ones before him could recognize and identify other cats for territory and appeal to him... I see and like pretty women, is this innate or learned, part of the mind, a part of the brain? Can anything go wrong there?
How does this species and gender recognition work?
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greetings Bren,
Nature has a clever way of filling us all up with natural predispositions and it's just a fact that ( for the majority of us) attraction to the opposite sex is not only one of pleasure but more fundamentally, is prerequisite to perpetuate the species.
I would side that it is innate though you'd be surprised how the opposite can be learned too.
I can't imagine anything going wrong on a global scale else it would be the end of human life unless a new way of procreation was discovered.
How does species and gender recognition work ?..well...appearance helps !!...we have visual, auditory and even olfactory clues too.........but I think.......visual recognition is pretty much right up there !!
Now I am sure a science peep will come and give a more detailed answer.
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