Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships (Hardback)

Love is surely the single most all-encompassing emotion we experience. It binds us together as couples, as parents and offspring, as members of an extended family, even as a community. It defines what it is to be human. This book opens the Pandora's Box on this most complex and puzzling aspect of what it is to be human. - Robin Dunbar, author of Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

Even though it is what makes the world go around, we have trouble describing love except as a warm feeling. Anna Machin offers a lively guide to the many kinds of human love that exist, and the biology and psychology that explain why we love the way we do. - Frans de Waal, author of Mama’s Last Hug - Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Love sits at the center of human existence, according to this sharp survey from anthropologist Machin... Machin draws from plenty of studies of both the human and animal worlds, and her personal interjections are energizing... this provocative account is a fitting tribute to its subject. - Publishers Weekly