Emotional selection (evolution)

Emotional selection is a proposed third mode of evolutionary selection, alongside natural and sexual selection, introduced by the German philosopher Ferdinand Fellmann in 2009. Fellmann argued that natural and sexual selection alone do not fully explain the emergence of human personality and self-awareness, and that loving, monogamous pair-bonding is the setting in which sexual selection gives way to emotional selection, a mechanism he holds is specific to human courtship and mating. Under this view, individual differences in personality are not simply raw material later shaped by natural selection, but are actively produced by relationship-based selection pressures operating within pair-bonded groups. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/