US ambassador killed over a film

[FireIceTalon]

And eppie, love and beauty are social constructs mate, not biological. Love might appear to have a biological component to it, such as between a mother and child, but even this relationship must be learned, and with the divorce rate in our society being 50%, I would say this is solid evidence that love changes, best friends can become strangers, and therefore, love is ultimately a social construct. Beauty is absolutely, 100% a social construct, for the exact same reasons that race is.

The type of beauty is indeed a social construct. It differs over time, and also geographically. But the fact that people seek for an 'attractive' made is a biological (evolutionary) process.

The fact that love changes does not mean it is only a social thing. It is a socially influenced biological thing.

It might be partially evolutionary, but I think it would be a mistake to think that it is entirely or even primarily based on this - that would be biological determinism. To support your theory, people generally do look for a mate that can, first and foremost, have a good chance of reproducing offspring. This may be why many men seek women who are younger, and why many women seek a man that is financially stable or ambitious. But there is so much more to it then that. Perceived intelligence, sense of humor, personality, compatibility, and a million other factors also play a part, probably much more than biological factors do at this point. If it was pure biology, we could all just find someone we consider attractive and is able to reproduce, marry them on the first date, and be done with it. But that isn't what we do - we are much more selective than that, and it is predominantly because of cultural and social factors, not so much biological ones. I'm not an Anthropologist, but even when Archaic humans developed, it is widely believed they were the first humans to have language and some degree of culture beyond tool-making and hunting - if this is the case, that would mean that men and women didn't congregate simply to reproduce, but also because of the dynamic social bonds and cohesion that were necessary for them to exist cooperatively - the development of so-called 'primitive communism' that was predominant for most of 'modern humans' existence (80-90% of it, in fact) until the development of hierarchical/class societies.