“Philosophers have tried to define it for hundreds of years, painters have tried to paint it, poets have lamented over it, countless stories have been written about it, plays and movies have dealt with it, and yet love remains a mystery.”
Everyone has experienced love in some form or the other. Some believe that it’s intuition, some would say fate. Whether these things are true or not, the reality is that through millennia of evolution a biological foundation has been built for humans experiencing love. A Brief History of Love by Dr Liat Yakir explores everything you need to know about the human body’s role in relationships and love.
The author highlights that according to most people, across ages, love and relationships seem to be what they value the most in life. Yet, with the abundance of information on how to handle relationships and make them work, it can sometimes feel like anything but natural to us. Beyond self-help, this nonfiction book will equip you with the information you need to understand the science of love and understand yourself and your relationships better.
This book starts with the biological basis of emotions before going deeper into the subject of love. It covers everything from what you are attracted to and why to whether humans are evolutionarily inclined to fidelity; the biology of same-sex love to how having a family affects people’s love life. It delves into the brain, hormones and evolution in an accessible and easy to understand way that will resonate with anyone regardless of their prior understanding of biology.
A Brief History of Love is a thoroughly researched book written by an expert in the field. Dr. Liat Yakir is a biologist and lecturer in the fields of the biology of emotions and human behavior. She has a Ph.D. in genetics and an M.Sc. in hormone research from the Weizmann Institute of Science. She also has a B.Sc. degree in life sciences from Tel Aviv University. She explains that her own experiences of love and heartbreak led to her interest in researching love through the lens of her passion, biology.
Love can be a confusing emotion and the key to understanding it may be learning about it with a scientific approach. A Brief History of Love, published in India by The Bombay Circle Press is available on Amazon. Keep an eye on our bulletin for more book recommendations in all genres.