Nicholas Christakis
Brief Bio: Greek-American sociologist and physician
Lived: 1962-
For further info: en.wikipedia.org
Quotes:
“The drive to love your partner is universal”
That feature — a key characteristic of our species — is the pair-bond between sexual partners, a special kind of attachment to one’s mate that we humans surely inherited from our primate ancestors, that is seen in cultures with all marriage types, and that people experience as love. The drive to love your partner is universal.
“The Social Suite”
At the core of all societies, I will show, is the social suite:
- The capacity to have and recognize individual identity
- Love for partners and offspring
- Friendship
- Social networks
- Cooperation
- Preference for one’s own group (that is, “in-group bias”)
- Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism)
- Social learning and teaching
2019 from the book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society