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Chapter one
Gray Matter
Biology | Neuroscience
Your Brain in Love
Anthropologist Helen Fisher tells us what the biology of love is.
Culture | Psychology
The Brave New World of Chemical Romance
How love drugs will shape the future of our relationships.
Chapter two
Family Matters
Biology | Evolution
The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate
Calculating the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens.
Biology | Animals
Eels Don’t Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life
Why eels are one strange fish.
Culture | History
The Last Love of Jonas Salk
The unusual union of a renowned artist and the discoverer of the Polio vaccine.
Chapter three
Matters of the Heart
Culture | Anthropology
Gender Is What You Make of It
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and the relationship that changed social science.
Biology | Neuroscience
The Hard Problem of Breakfast
How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?
Biology | Psychology
Your Romantic Ideals Don’t Predict Who Your Future Partner Will Be
Why birds of a feather don’t flock together for long.
Chapter four
Survival Matters
Ideas | Astronomy
How Life Could Continue to Evolve
On the origin of an interstellar species.
Biology | Reproduction
Sex Is Driven by the Impetus to Change
Hooking up is nature’s way for a species to overcome a bad genomic match.
Biology | Health
We Don’t Have to Despair
Medical research director Eric Topol sees light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.
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