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

Summary: 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. --Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393285222
ISBN: 0393285227
Physical Description: print
xii, 450 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
Edition: Completely revised and updated.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised edition of the author's Anatomy of love: the natural history of monogamy, adultery, and divorce, 1992.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-426) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.