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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 Paperback - 2017

by Helen Fisher

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With lively language and telling insights, anthropologist Fisher explores the past and possible future of our changing attitudes toward sexuality and significant others.

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Love at first sight...the copulatory gaze...dinner dates...jealousy... intimacy... homesexuality...infidelity...Dr.Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, explains it all in this four-million-year history of the human species. She demystifies much about romance and pairing that we tend to believe is willfull or just plain careless. She offers new explanations for why men and women fall in love, marry, and divorce, and discusses the future of sex in a way that will surprise you.
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  • Title Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
  • Author Helen Fisher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Completely Revis
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SQ0314178
  • ISBN 9780393349740 / 0393349748
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex customs, Marriage
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.3

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From the jacket flap

"Captivates the reader, answers all those puzzling questions that caused your mother (or priest or guidance counselor or gym teacher) to blame God and/or hormones....Her prediction of a more open and egalitarian order provides a compelling--and hopeful--vision for the future."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Love at first sight...the copulatory gaze...dinner dates...jealousy... intimacy... homesexuality...infidelity...Dr.Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History, explains it all in this four-million-year history of the human species. She demystifies much about romance and pairing that we tend to believe is willfull or just plain careless. She offers new explanations for why men and women fall in love, marry, and divorce, and discusses the future of sex in a way that will surprise you.

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