Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray /

Updated to include the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships, a revised edition of a classic reference examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance. By the author of Why We Love. --Publishe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Helen E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:Completely revised and updated.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Here's to love
  • Games people play : Courting
  • Why him? why her? : The drive to love and who we choose
  • Is monogamy natural? : Of human bonding ... and cheating
  • Why adultery? : The nature of philandering
  • Blueprint for divorce : The three- to four-year itch
  • "When wild in woods the noble savage ran" : Life in the trees
  • Out of Eden : On the origin of monogamy and desertion
  • The tyranny of love : Evolution of attachment and love addictions
  • Dressed to impress : Nature's lures for seduction
  • Men and women are like two feet: they need each other to get ahead : Gender differences in mind
  • Women, men, and power : The nature of sexual politics
  • Almost human : Genesis of kinship and the teenager
  • The first affluent society : "That short but imperious word, 'ought'"
  • Fickle passion : Romance in yesteryears
  • "Till death us do part" : Birth of sexual double standards
  • Future sex : Slow love and forward to the past.