Two Dear by Rick Bass has interesting dichotomy with love and evolution. Martha one of the characters in Two Dear says, “ that hunting is “the primary act of evolution that has most shaped the organic body we call intelligence.”” (174) Talking about predators here; but man is different then other predators. Early humans were primary vegetarian, and lacked the desire to hunt or eat meat.
In Loren Eiseley's An Evolutionist Looks at Modern Man she describes this difference, “Man has not really survived by toughness in a major sense -- even the great evolutionists Darwin and Wallace had had trouble with that aspect of man instead, he has survived through tenderness”. Love and socialization were the primary force of evolution in man. Eiseley's latter goes on to state, “signs of affection and mutual co-operation, love of beauty, dreams of a future life, can be traced into forms of man physically more primitive than ourselves” suggesting that even our most primitive ancestors had highly structured social groups.
Bass goes on to use this intrinsic human characteristic to promote love between his Narrator and Martha. There is a danger to love, a risk that all men and women must take; like rushing out to …show more content…
In this quote Bass describes this cycle, “The things outside of us seem never to change, beyond the constancy of the four seasons-birth, life, death, rebirth-but I'm convicted that our lives are different, just a tad above or below these constant cycles” (165). This constant butterfly affect of life, is in constant cycle. In love, business, physics, etc; it brings into question if everything. In Eiseley's essay, she even says, “Even the solar system has now felt the impact of that tiny, soundless explosion. The fact that it was the product of evolutionary forces does not lessen its remarkable quality”. That a tiny event lead to The Creation, and on this silent planet this rule still follows
In Loren Eiseley's An Evolutionist Looks at Modern Man she describes this difference, “Man has not really survived by toughness in a major sense -- even the great evolutionists Darwin and Wallace had had trouble with that aspect of man instead, he has survived through tenderness”. Love and socialization were the primary force of evolution in man. Eiseley's latter goes on to state, “signs of affection and mutual co-operation, love of beauty, dreams of a future life, can be traced into forms of man physically more primitive than ourselves” suggesting that even our most primitive ancestors had highly structured social groups.
Bass goes on to use this intrinsic human characteristic to promote love between his Narrator and Martha. There is a danger to love, a risk that all men and women must take; like rushing out to …show more content…
In this quote Bass describes this cycle, “The things outside of us seem never to change, beyond the constancy of the four seasons-birth, life, death, rebirth-but I'm convicted that our lives are different, just a tad above or below these constant cycles” (165). This constant butterfly affect of life, is in constant cycle. In love, business, physics, etc; it brings into question if everything. In Eiseley's essay, she even says, “Even the solar system has now felt the impact of that tiny, soundless explosion. The fact that it was the product of evolutionary forces does not lessen its remarkable quality”. That a tiny event lead to The Creation, and on this silent planet this rule still follows