Robert Trivers (1972) proposed that ancestral women's greater obligatory investment in offspring led to the evolution of preferences for long-term over short-term mates, which may explain why religious expressions of erotic attachment to Christ among women included romantic sentiment alongside carnal desire.

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  The Evolution of Transcendence | Evolutionary Psychological Science

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