Neurological Correlates

A Neuroscience Tabloid of Dysfunctional Behavior – Mostly Psychopaths, Narcissists, Obesity and Addiction

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Law and neuroscience: What’s love got to do with it? Plenty. Prairie voles and Justininan law and marriage laws depending on intent of the parties.

May 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Under concepts of Justinian laws, you only own wild animals while you had them in captivity. The exception was for animals which mate for life, then, if one of the mates wanders off, it still belongs to you because obviously it had the intent to return to the other mate, but just got confused. This should be the basis of our marriage laws. We can test for intent-to-bond-for-life using vasopressin receptor alleles as a proxy.

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