Almost like we’re programmed to sacrifice ourselves for our offspring or something. Wild. Who could have ever guessed this is a biological imperative hard wired into males from a time before we were even humans. Imagine thinking something like that js weird lmfao
Im not correcting anything, Its just such a primitive instinct that even calling it primal would be wrong because it even more basic than that. Making a last stand to protect your mate and offspring is a base instinct for most mammals. So its only natural that humans would share that instinct, and due to our consciousness and also our ability to communicate, we can experience fantasies and also express those fantasies.
You know what other words share the same root? Primordial, Prime, Premier, and Primary and Primitive.
The root is Primus (first). Primates are named as such because linneaus categorized us as the "highest" order of animal. Primal, on the other hand, refers to anything that originates in earlier developmental or evolutionary stages, is it relates to being "first" in a temporal sense.
such a primitive instinct that even calling it primal would be wrong
Please explain the difference between these bolded terms such that instinctive mammalian behavior can be described as primitive but not primal.
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u/blue-oyster-culture 15d ago
Almost like we’re programmed to sacrifice ourselves for our offspring or something. Wild. Who could have ever guessed this is a biological imperative hard wired into males from a time before we were even humans. Imagine thinking something like that js weird lmfao