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

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

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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Helen Fisher
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Release Date: 1994-01-03

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"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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Must read!.......2007-09-11

Digest review: Gender attraction, what we call love, is universal and timeless. This emotion is biologically instinctive down to the lowest order with the smallest brain. Everything we feel and do is evolutionary and mirrored throughout the animal kingdom. If you want to understand why you chose your mate, read this book with your lover. You will nod in agreement with every page.

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray.......2007-03-15

I'm a fan of Helen Fisher and wish that she had written more books. Her writing is lively and clear, and her synthesis of anthropological research and ideas into a readable text is a pleasure and very helpful. Her thesis is interesting and I believe right, and she builds her case clearly and solidly. I also recommend her later book, "Why We Love", which I read first, and which was published in 2004, making it more current.

A fascinating and enjoyable book.......2006-08-02

The reviews for this book are very mixed, and perhaps if I were a scientist I might be a little harsh too. As someone with zero scientific training but a strong interest in human relations, I found the book fascinating, easy to follow and fun to read. I think that the author did a great job of introducing interesting ideas in manner that anyone can grasp. I can really recommend one of her other books too, Why we love.

Why One Can't Fight With Evolutionary History.......2006-06-19

We are wired for the thing that humans call love ... which is really a form of mania, psychosis, emotional turbulence, and all unsettling points in between. The cocktails of the emotional high ... characteristic of the first flush of romance..limerance .... heady infatuation ... romantic attraction ... and all the resulting poor judgement ... almost explain why marriage is a precarious proposition. True love in some instances may exist but in most cases it is rare. No wonder the white picket fence is really just a nicer form of prison barbed wire.

Intriguing Read.......2006-03-12

I was intrigued by the topic, cover, and title for Dr. Fisher's Anatomy of Love. From the start I was interested. I was especially drawn-in after the first chapter where "the gaze" is discussed as the "most striking human courting play." The Anatomy of Love is a detailed account of human attraction; the book attempts to explain why humans mate, marry, and stray; citing both conjectural, biological and literately evidence. Four pages into the book and the reader discovers a table of contents with such titles as "Why Adultery", "Eros", and "Fickle Passion"; any reader would have to be at least intrigued. And so confirms the theme of the book. Biology plays a role, a fundamental role, in human attraction, marriage, and even divorce. This book is not designed for those who believe solely in fate; it is not designed for romance novel readers. Dr. Fisher presents a persuasive explanation for the purpose of human attraction devoid of political correctness. She provides surprising facts, "most people think men are supposed to take the initiative in sexual advances, in practice women around the world actively begin sexual liaisons." Dr. Fisher presents an interesting, research-based account of sex and relationships, allowing the readers to decide if they believe the research.

Anatomy of Love is written as a sweeping tour of the landscape of love. Her writing style is simple, concise and thorough. Dr. Fischer provides just enough narrative and conjecture to allow this book to be more than a typical biology textbook on love and relationships. She tells the story from the point of view of a casual observer into the human psyche; supporting each discussion points with multiple forms of evidence. She does not hesitate to draw from multiple hard sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.) while combining them with historical, anthropological, or social sciences to further elaborate on her points.

I caught myself thinking back to a time when I was dating where I wished I had been more aware of the fundamental techniques explained by Dr. Fisher in an attraction game. One line described the male response to a female's first attempt at overt flirtations, "...instantly if he flinches, the pickup is over. If he withdraws, even barely, the sender may never try to touch again," (p. 28) outlines how touchy Dr. Fisher views love, attraction, and sex. It also provides a hearty example of the feeling the book gave. As I read the book I felt like I had to rush to find information, I had to watch for the clues she was leaving. I found at times Dr. Fischer did tend to make sweeping arguments, "there is a great deal of ancillary evidence to suggest that some of these patterns are universal to humankind (p. 29)." But overall I believed the points she was making. Once I finished, I wondered whether Dr. Fisher intended the reader to react to the book in much the same manner a human would in trying to figure out the anatomy of love - maybe it is all basic biology but not are we ever really consciously aware of it. I think the major strength of this book was its believability around a topic approached in countless of different genre. Overall I would recommend the read.

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Historical Evidence that Humans have been Craving Insanity a Long Long LONG Time
"LOVE IS THE GREAT INTANGIBLE......."
Counting the ways of the heart.
clear and readable
A true treasure & a staple of your library

A Natural History Of Love
Diane Ackerman
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The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this "audaciously brilliant romp through the world of romantic love" (Washington Post Book World) is the next best thing to love itself.

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Historical Evidence that Humans have been Craving Insanity a Long Long LONG Time.......2006-06-02

A chronicle of just how insane the human species gets when their brain gets a serving of emotional cocaine known as the illusion of romantic love. People are just the love object. The emotions that have one acting out-of-the ordinary are outcomes of a brain on drugs.... aka temporary insanity. The supposed yearning humans often feel are simple withdrawal symptoms akin to those being weened off morphine.

What's love got to do with it? NOTHING!

"LOVE IS THE GREAT INTANGIBLE.......".......2005-05-11

Lorenz Hart wrote, "I wish I were in love again." "Let's do it, let's fall in love," advised Cole Porter. No other subject has inspired as many songs, poems, books or plays as ever appealing, sometimes elusive love. And here is Diane Ackerman to tell us all about it.

"Love is the great intangible" is the way this volume begins, and it is equally unfathomable after we finish reading, but there's much information and great good fun in between. Beginning with the history of love in ancient Egypt through Rome, the Middle Ages and up to the present, the author explores the historical, cultural and biological roots of that which makes the world go round.

Rich with insights into traditions and little known facts, "Love's Customs" may well be one of the most fascinating chapters. For instance, it was the medieval Italians who favored diamond rings because "of their superstition that diamonds were created from the flames of love." Soldiers of ancient Sparta hosted the first stag parties. The white wedding dress was first won by Anne of Brittany in 1499 when she married Louis XII of France. Both bride and groom wore a blue band around the bottom of their wedding garments in biblical times, which is where the idea of the bride's "something blue" originated.

"A Natural History of Love" is a rare literary work in that it is both a well researched scholarly text, terrific reading, and offers an insight that probably applies to each one of us.

- Gail Cooke

Counting the ways of the heart........2003-11-08

"We have the great fortune to live on a planet abounding with humans, plants, and animals," poet Diane Ackerman (A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES, 1990), writes in her Introduction to this book; "and I often marvel at the strange tasks evolution sets them. Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite" (p. xxiii). Once again demonstrating her talent for blending the disciplines of history, anthropology, psychology, literature and natural science, Ackerman turns her attention here to the subject of love, "the great intangible" (p. xvii). In counting the ways of the heart, she reveals through a historical survey of Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and Modern times that our attitudes about love are truly as old as the pyramids, and she also examines the evolution, psychology, and chemistry of love, the differences between men and women when it comes to love, monogamy and adultery, love-thwarted attachments, and aphrodisiacs and eroticism. While it may not live up to the standard Ackerman set in A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES, in addressing what it means to love from a variety of different perspectives, this book is nevertheless quite fascinating.

G. Merritt

clear and readable.......2003-05-31

I read this to be entertained, and I was. Like her other books, this one was clearly written, easy on the eyes, clever, witty, and packed with interesting out-of-the-way information. It's a pleasant and well-composed discourse through the history of romantic love in the West. If you come to it from that point of view, you might like it.

If a criterion of a good read is that the author inspires in you some of the emotions she describes, then most of the book succeeded for me: at times I wondered what she'd be like on a date....

Parts of the book get into human instincts. While there's evidence for these--the rooting instinct in babies, for instance--we need to bear in mind that human instincts are heavily modified by time, place, and personality. The maternal instinct, for example, is painted in ideal colors: the loving mother mirroring her baby. We've all seen that; but some of us have also met mothers who hate their children (or, worse, feel indifferent toward them) and whose maternal instinct never sees the daylight. We shouldn't follow Freud's old 19th Century slippage from psychology into biology unless we're prepared to ignore the social and spiritual roots of human motivation.

I appreciate the author's knack for collecting a lot of information on a given topic, then giving us the best fruits of her learnings in breezy and often poetic language.

A true treasure & a staple of your library.......2002-04-09

This book is amazing. If you haven't read Ackerman before, I suggest starting with _A Natural History of the Senses_. Then read this book. Ackerman is a very talented writer. Even if the subject isn't entirely interesting, her words and their rhythms are. This subject, however, is very interesting. Ackerman muses on myths (such as Dido) and history (such as Napoleon and Josephine), but also explores instincts and preferences (why women love horses and the influence of pheromones). This book is romantic, historical, sexual, poetic, challenging, and completely beautiful.

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A final review of the stories that mattered to her.......2006-11-02

"Love Song to the Plains" was one the last books Mari Sandoz published in her lifetime. In it, she retells many of the stories she's told before, stories the reader has heard from her and others, the stories that created the Great Plains, "the West", in the mind of the nation. Most of these stories play on myths that have only an irregular basis in historical fact; some stories were outright lies, to advertise a sideshow, to sell stolen realestate, to justify murder, committed or proposed. Even when writing nonfiction, Sandoz finds good use for stories as stories; they are one reality, enlightening precisely by telling everything but the truth.
This book is really a history of Nebraska, though ramifiying all over the upper Plains and in to the Rocky Mountains, these ramifications occurring along the pathways of the Indian Wars, ever an important topic for Sandoz, and for Nebraska, a state perhaps more conscious of its history than many.
Mari Sandoz probably compares more readily to Wallace Stegner than to her fellow Nebraskan Willa Cather; though she's much more positive about the future than Stegner (I find her remarks on recent Nebraskan history far less insightful than her reading of Plains history up through the New Deal), she shares his skepticism about the culture of "the West" but also his attachment to it.
Readers who are bothered by anger may find Sandoz unpleasant at times; of course, to paraphrase a bumper sticker, if you're not angered by history, you didn't pay attention.

Lyical account of the mystique of the Great Plains.......1998-12-06

This is an extremely beautiful account of the history of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Mari Sandoz is a shamefully obscure writer whose writing is so efficiently pure that it seems timeless. A must for anyone interested in the West, and in the nature of humanity, always looking to expand.

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a far -out book by a far- out man.......2000-06-22

Chrisian Ratsch has got to be one of the most interesting people around, speaks at least 5 languages, a pagan's pagan but firmly grounded in nepalese shamanism, german mythology, entheobotany; helived with a "primitive" community for five years . This book reflects his expansive knowlege plus it is beautiful to look through.

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Respect for all species.......2007-06-15

It's nice to see and qualify the feelings many of us have had since childhood about loving animals. It seems to get faded as we grow older and integrate in a society that has put a lesser value on them for some reason. But here is a book that helps us accept those good emotions of the past and perpetuates the feeling that one day all life will be regarded having equal value. What Jane has done in the world is amazing and rocked the boat of science and for that reason alone one should experience her writing. Animals certainly can teach us a lot about ourselves..and this can only make our lives better. If you are ready, read this light hearted, easy to read book.

Speaking Out For Those That Can't.......2007-05-27

One additional trust are the author's themselves; who better to speak for the animals than Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff? The formatting of conversational style writing with each author's commentary separately noted, gives an insight and understanding of their personal experience, and individual dedication relating to their life passions. The stories, facts, and touching emotions that come through in the author's words, should make anyone stand up and want to do something, no matter how big or small, to make a difference in helping to save our natural environment. The world needs more great people like Goodall and Bekoff, to speak out for those that cannot, before it is too late.

A Global Essential.......2004-05-29

Of the many books I have read dealing with environmental issues, this has had a major impact. The authors have tremendous credibility and scientific knowledge. If ever there was a canary in the mine, it is this book. We have plundered our planet, ignored the quality of life for other sentient beings, and have failed to see the need for a balance in nature and our own lives.
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Rebuilding Our Ethics Through Trust.......2002-11-09

Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Marc Bekoff have compiled ideas, stories, experience and much more about living a humane and ethical life into a book accessible to all. As the animal protection community has done for 50 years, this book shows that humans must respect the environment and all life if we, as a species, expect to survive. It is a very simple premise yet humanity has yet to catch on. The Ten Trusts not only gives us a path to follow, but it shows how others have acted before in trying to alter destructive patterns. Caring for others (animals, humans and nature) is not something radical, it is - humane! It is something everyone must do.

Goodall and Bekoff share their experiences from living a life of compassion and a boundless ethic. Few people are as well known and respected as Jane Goodall, but she has never rested on her fame. Instead, she stepped away from her field research and beloved friends in Gombe National Park, not to build monetary wealth, but to share her wealth of knowledge with young and old alike through lectures and programs such as Roots and Shoots. While Bekoff has spent years educating a more humane youth at the University of Colorado, all while helping us to better understand and appreciate animal behavior.

Over the last two years the Bush administration has systematically deconstructed even basic protections for the environment in order to please corporate greed. The Ten Trusts talks about many issues, one of which will certainly reappear following recent elections, is the drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWR. Even though the American public is opposed to destroying the last pristine environment, the Administration hopes to lull us into a belief that it is needed.

This does not have to be. Goodall, who revolutionized how humans think about other species through her work with chimpanzees and Bekoff, who is a leader in showing us that the minds of animals are as unique and complex as ours, have concisely gathered a wonderful set of ethics into an easily readable book. A book that everyone should read because it shows how we really can and MUST be compassionate.

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Jung called it "an unconscious identity with animals," while Wordsworth saw it as the "primal sympathy which having been must ever be." Linking the diverse chords of human experience that are touched by the animal world, Preece shows that despite a historical thread of cruelty, there still remains in all humanity a constant underlying concern for other beings as an integral part of the moral community.

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