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[[File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_La_Belle_Dame_sans_Merci_(1893).jpg|thumb|right|300px|She's just testing him…]] | [[File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_La_Belle_Dame_sans_Merci_(1893).jpg|thumb|right|300px|She's just testing him…]] | ||
'''Romance''' is a particular kind of male [[courtship]] display with emphasis on [[beauty#Beautiful_behavior|beautiful behavior]] which | '''Romance''' is a particular kind of male [[courtship]] display with emphasis on [[beauty#Beautiful_behavior|beautiful behavior]] which evolved by [[Fisherian runaway|runaway sexual selection]]. This kind of courtship amounts to the sophisticated art of ''concealing'' the mundane transactional nature of human sexual [[relationship]]s, especially on part of the female. As courtship behavior, romance displays the quality of the man's genes and acts as [[costly signalling]] of his ability and willingness to his [[hypergamy|invest resources]] in the woman and future offspring. | ||
The existence of romantic investment on part of the ''female'' is one of the most widespread obvious lies in human history. The closest female behavior is bonding as a promise of sexual exclusivity which men desire as [[paternity assurance]] driven by a fear they will be abandoned or starve, being themselves incapable of survival in the ancestral environment of humans. | The existence of romantic investment on part of the ''female'' is one of the most widespread obvious lies in human history. The closest female behavior is bonding as a promise of sexual exclusivity which men desire as [[paternity assurance]] driven by a fear they will be abandoned or starve, being themselves incapable of survival in the ancestral environment of humans. | ||