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    Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
    Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
    Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
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    Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

    Written by Helen Fisher

    Narrated by Helen Fisher

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    First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic. Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why you love who you love; and collected information on more than 30,000 men and women on sexting, hooking up, friends with benefits, and other current trends in courtship and marriage.

    This is a cutting-edge tour de force that traces human family life from its origins in Africa over 20 million years ago to the Internet dating sites and bedrooms of today. It's got it all: the copulatory gaze and other natural courting ploys; the who, when, where, and why of adultery; love addictions; Fisher's discovery of four broad chemically based personality styles and what each seeks in romance; the newest data on worldwide (biologically based) patterns of divorce; how and why men and women think differently; the real story of women, men, and power; the rise-and fall-of the sexual double standard; and what brain science tells us about how to make and keep a happy partnership.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9781494587482
    Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
    Author

    Helen Fisher

    Helen Fisher spent her early life in America but grew up mainly in Suffolk, England, where she now lives with her two children. She studied psychology at the University of Westminster and ergonomics at University College London and worked as a senior evaluator in research at the Royal National Institute of Blind People. She is the author of Faye, Faraway.

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    • 3/5
      Hmmm. It is difficult to rate. As far as a scholarly work it seems to do well, as far as how I can apply it to my life as a conservative Catholic who has struggled with infidelity I don't know. I had hoped to spur good conversation with my wife based on its content but all it did was make her depressed that there was no hope for true love.
    • 5/5
      I just re-read this... still REALLY REALLY like it. :)