ANATOMY OF LOVE

In a completely revised edition, anthropologist Helen Fisher adds a host of new data on the brain in love, and courtship in our digital age. And she casts an original (and optimistic) lens on modern love--proposing that we are returning to patterns of romance that evolved in our primordial past.

Lust; romance; attachment…is monogamy natural? Why him? Why her? Love addictions. Hooking up. Why adultery? Future Sex. Long a classic of Norton’s backlist, this completely renewed and rewritten edition brings a fantastic fresh perspective and current research to this “delightful to read....fascinating" (New York Times Book Review) and influential volume. “Fisher weaves a persuasive and consistently surprising new explanation of the roots of human marriage, sex, and love. Her account cuts more deeply than the ordinary literature on human sexuality." —Edward O. Wilson "Answers all those puzzling questions that caused your mother (or priest or guidance counselor or gym teacher) to blame God and/or hormones." —Philadelphia Inquirer “Enlightening and controversial.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Will give everyone who reads it a lot to talk about.”—Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don’t Understand Helen Fisher is the author of five books, including Why We Love and Why Him? Why Her? Senior Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute and Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com, she lives in New York City.