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

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This book has given me an entirely new outlook on life and myself. It is amazing how this book was able to erase years of shame pressed upon me by society.

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Summary: Finally, Love is Explained Clearly
Review: Through a careful analysis of a vast archive of anthropological and psychological research, Dr. Fisher constructs a cpmprehensive theory that explains why we love, how it happens, and why it (often) doesn't last. Her style and arguments are persuasive--I have had many occasions to refer back to this book since I read it; It is full of useful insights, particularly on the physiological nature of 'passion', that ecstatic feeling that makes lovers feel joyful or anguished. Written with outstanding clarity

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Summary: gold digging is hard wired
Review: What's her message? Basically how women need men and men
need women.Ok,how? Women need men to love and profide for
them.Men need women to aspire them to greater achievement
since in Fisher's world,men are the force and source of
all material gain and dependency for women.
Love is not a spiritual connection,but more of a I'll
put out if you build me a house and be the father of my
children.
The writer tells us in a preachy way how we are all
controlled by "hard wiring" in very "different brains"
and how hormones run our very exsistance.
She overlooks all cultural sterotypes which have a great
influence on behavior and preaches relentlessly about
brain structure and hormones to neauseum.
Experience makes connections in brains,but try telling her
that.It's her way or the highway.
The book does nothing for women.It reinforces the old
gold digging sterotypes about women,and the old sex
crazed sterotypes about men.She tries to present these
sterotypes as hard wired and fixed in human society from
years of evolution.Evolutionary psychology is a new
theory which implies basically - we are our ancestors -
and are not our own entities,but products of years of
evolution.Men evolved for spatial tasks and women for
verbal.What she does not say is how this happened.And how
can anyone truly know how our ancestors behaved.Was she
there with them thousands of years ago? Doubt it!
Some women might find this book enlightening,especially
if they want to defend their gold digging as hard wired.