'Wypipo' Explained

[Hortensis]

118. Yes, and more positively, we're drawn TO our "own,"

which helps create the kind of strong connections that helped communities survive in the all the tens of thousands of years many failed to.

Interestingly, science has discovered that animals will protect first-degree blood relatives at the expense of even second-degree, and second-degree at the expense of third-degree, and these patterns of protecting the genetic codes we pass down are discovered in human families as well.

And now I understand better why our friend Karen, married for 50 years into a large, very cohesive family around which their lives revolve, is right when she said, theoretically, that if she divorced she would immediately be cast out. She has a lot of old, old friends in that family, and children, but it's so cohesive because they feel that blood connection more strongly than most. Obviously there are very strong environmental factors here, but now we know genetic dispositions and reinforcements will be involved to varying degrees as well.