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10.4 Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the biological and social responses that underlie eating behavior.
- Understand the psychological and physiological responses that underlie sexual behavior.
Eating: Healthy Choices Make Healthy Lives
Along with the need to drink fresh water, which humans can normally attain in all except the
most extreme situations, the need for food is the most fundamental and important human need.