If you read what child lovers tell about their lives, one thing is common. No crazy chase after women when going through puberty. The simplest explanation might be the best one. Cantor & Co had one paper about the MR anisotrophy of certain brain regions, which they trye to explain by a missing myelination - which is part of the brain development and which gets delayed by Neoteny (they also offered other alternative explanations). And fast neurons make the back bone of instincts. In some sense, we are not "jumping to conclusions" or are controlled by emotions - or "driven by hormones". Seasickness is a strange body reaction. The assumption is that the body signals a food poisoning and tries to get rid of the stomach content. Fear of flying is similar - experiencing movements without having a related visual reference - the flight instinct is activated. If my theory about the origin of pedophilia is right, then we should see less instinctive behavior in pedophiles. That would lead to an evolutionary explanation for pedophilia - a bit too much Neoteny. |