Love. (Cover story)

• Autores: Kate Wong
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 301, Nº. 3, 2009, págs. 71-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the role of the brain in the evolution of the emotion love, which is thought to be an early adaptive trait in the lineage of humans. Topics include the hypothesis by anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University that love is the result of bipedalism and the development of large brains, including a mother’s ability to carry her children on her back and the ability to extend the duration of monogamous relationships, respectively.