What’s about disliking trespass on your property in general? (edit: and use of your property) Now that definitely has evolved in animals long before serious pair bonding, and can serve the function just fine.
edit: The crux of the issue is that saying ‘jealousy is evolved’ is a fake explanation like phlogiston, that stops further inquiry (when further enquiry is still well warranted via the ‘difficulty to evolve’ based prior that is not unlike occam’s razor).
edit: ahh, by the way, consider female jealousy, and the jealousy for the sake of not losing the partner.
If a single gene could do that, it probably would.
You still haven’t presented any plausible explanation for why the meme of jealousy would arise at all.
What’s about disliking trespass on your property in general? (edit: and use of your property) Now that definitely has evolved in animals long before serious pair bonding, and can serve the function just fine.
edit: The crux of the issue is that saying ‘jealousy is evolved’ is a fake explanation like phlogiston, that stops further inquiry (when further enquiry is still well warranted via the ‘difficulty to evolve’ based prior that is not unlike occam’s razor).
edit: ahh, by the way, consider female jealousy, and the jealousy for the sake of not losing the partner.