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Love : the biology behind the heart /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Anthony, 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, 2016.
Subjects:
Love > Social aspects.
Love.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • What is this thing called love?
  • The yearning for oneness
  • Love and the brain
  • Mother love and Darwinian sexual selection
  • Touching hearts, touching minds
  • Father love
  • Lovelessness and lawlessness
  • Love and physical health and illness
  • Love and mental health and illness
  • Self-love : other love
  • Romantic love : its origin and purpose
  • The chemistry of romantic love
  • Love styles : how do you love me?
  • Monogamy and promiscuity
  • Love as exchange and barter
  • Ecstasy and agony : love and betrayal
  • Loving by the numbers
  • Expanding the circle : universal love?
  • Index.