Is feeling Jealous being Needy?

[Mark]

Yeah, if you want to start making, "Other animals do this," leaps, then we could spend all day and night making comparisons. There are species of animals who eat their own babies. Doesn't tell us anything about human behavior.

You have to look at cross-cultural behaviors and pre-historic behaviors to get at what's "human nature," although most evolutionary psychologists and sociobiologists absolutely fucking hate the term "human nature" because they don't believe that it's a static thing -- rather it's fluid both across time and across cultures. Our specific genes only play a partial role in our overall phenotype (external expressions of behavior).

Like I said, epic post coming on this in the next month or two. I want to get it right though.