Darwin called jealousy “instinctive pair-bond protection,” and science backs him up. According to evolutionary psychologists and neuroscientists, jealousy stems from the desire to keep a couple together and ensure the continuity of genes.
This feeling is innate and is also found in some animals, such as elephant seals, deer and baboons, which protect their females. Scientists have identified the area of the brain associated with jealousy in the ventromedial cortex and have discovered that men and women experience it differently for evolutionary reasons. Men worry more about lack of sexual fidelity, while women worry more about the possibility of emotional abandonment, because they want men to create and maintain a family.
Although it's a natural feeling, jealousy can become pathological, and according to the University of Pisa, this is linked to low levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps communication between nerve cells.
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