num_pages: 464
description: First published in 1992 Helen Fishers fascinating (New York Times) 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 80000 people to explain why you love who you love; and collected information on more than 30000 men and women on sexting hooking up friends with benefits and other current trends in courtship and marriage. And she presents a new scientifically based and optimistic perspective on relationships in our digital agewhat she calls slow love.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. And its got it all: the copulatory gaze and other natural courting ploys; the who when where and why of adultery; love addictions; her 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 riseand fallof the sexual double standard; and what brain science tells us about how to make and keep a happy partnership.
language: English
title: Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company