Book
Anatomy of love : a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray
Edition
Completely revised and updated edition.
Publication Information
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Physical Description
xii, 450 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
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.
Notes
Revised edition of the author's Anatomy of love: the natural history of monogamy, adultery, and divorce, 1992.
Contents
- 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 af 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 do us part" : Birth of sexual double standards
- Future sex : Slow love and forward to the past
- Appendices
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.