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Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today for this week's Friday Weird Science: the evolutionary psychology of romance novel titles. This does, indeed exist. And it's just as hilarious as you always hoped it would be. So if you want to see me contribute my glorious talent to the romance novel genre (trust me, you do), and hear about how romance novel thrust...deep...into our evolutionary psychology, head over and check it out!