Whether you reside for Valentine's Day or are the sort to put out of your mind your marriage ceremony anniversary, love is, easily, a part of being human. In The technological know-how of Love, popular evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar makes use of the newest technology to discover each point of human love. Why can we kiss? What evolutionary gain may well there be to feeling such as you might die on your mate? If love exists to motivate child-bearing and child-rearing, why will we love until eventually dying do us half (and beyond)? Is parental love whatever like romantic love? Dunbar explores every thing technological know-how has stumbled on approximately romance, ardour, intercourse, and dedication, answering those questions and more.
- Draws at the most up-to-date clinical study to check the various features of love—passion, dedication, intimacy, hugging, kissing, monogamy, dishonest, and more—and clarify why we've got developed to act as we do
- Filled with interesting insights into particular human behaviors and reviews, from the ecu air kiss on either cheeks to the phenomenon of affection at the beginning sight
- Written by means of Robin Dunbar, a well-liked anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist whose paintings were featured in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and lots of different books
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