Randy_M comments on Stupid Questions Thread - January 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Randy_M 14 January 2014 04:19:13PM *  1 point [-]

There is certainly an inner drive, more pronounced in women, because species without such a drive don't make it though natural selection.

A developmentally complex species needs a drive to care for offspring. A simple species just needs a drive to reproduce.

ETA: What Lumifer said