Human beings are essentially feeling beings. These feelings range through gross awareness, through sentience to higher renewing feelings such as love. In this context we become people and adapt through our primary pathic relationships with others, family and friends, in particular. The attached paper details this further.
Feelings have the main role and influence on adaptation between two or more human beings, between two or more genders, two or more families, clans or communities, two or more generations, language groups, nations, states, between peoples...