Anatomy of Love, Helen Fisher
Anatomy of Love, Helen Fisher
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Anatomy of Love
A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

Author: Helen Fisher

Narrator: Helen Fisher

Unabridged: 12 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/26/2016

Synopsis

First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's 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 80,000 people to explain why you love who you love; and collected information on more than 30,000 men and women on sexting, hooking up, friends with benefits, and other current trends in courtship and marriage.

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. It's got it all: the copulatory gaze and other natural courting ploys; the who, when, where, and why of adultery; love addictions; Fisher's 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 rise—and fall—of the sexual double standard; and what brain science tells us about how to make and keep a happy partnership.

About Helen Fisher

Helen Fisher, PhD, a biological anthropologist, is the author of several books, including Why Him? Why Her? and Why We Love. A senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, a member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University, and the chief scientific adviser to match.com, Helen is a frequent national and international speaker. Her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people, and she lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara on April 08, 2008

I enjoyed this book, and it definitely gave me a lot to think about in terms of the biological/sociological urge to pair up and produce offspring. The main problem in this book for me was that the writer tried too hard to convince me of her point of view. The book was written in defence of a particul......more

Goodreads review by Patti on August 20, 2016

I picked this up on the recommendation of Rebecca Schinsky from Book Riot. As a psychology major, she always seeks out smart nonfiction titles. Fisher originally published this in 1992, and while I had wanted to read that edition for some time, the online dating and texting environment of modern ti......more

Goodreads review by Ariadna73 on February 28, 2013

Me he reido muchísimo leyendo este libro. Cuenta desde un punto de vista científico, los vericuetos del amor romántico, y se pregunta si los animales se enamoran como nosotros los humanos, o si los humanos nos inventamos todo ese cuento del enamoramiento y en realidad solo seguimos instintos como lo......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on January 17, 2021

The author is the Chief Scientific Officer of Match.com and is a published scientist with her own scientific love scale. So she knows love. This book was first published more than 20 years ago, and then updated in 2017. The styles are clearly different. I found the modern update revealing but the ar......more

Goodreads review by Aurélien on August 12, 2022

Why do we chose a partner over others? Why do we behave in certain ways when we intend to seduce? Is monogamy natural? What about polygamy? Incest? Can love even last at all? These questions might be from disconcerting to plain embarrassing, if not taboo, yet, the anthropologist Helen Fisher, helped......more

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