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Chapter one
Gray Matter


Your Brain in Love
Anthropologist Helen Fisher tells us what the biology of love is.

The Brave New World of Chemical Romance
How love drugs will shape the future of our relationships.
Chapter two
Family Matters

The Price of Life Is Death, but Sex Improves the Exchange Rate
Calculating the evolutionary success of Homo sapiens.

Eels Don’t Have Sex Until the Last Year of Their Life
Why eels are one strange fish.

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

Gender Is What You Make of It
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and the relationship that changed social science.

The Hard Problem of Breakfast
How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?

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

How Life Could Continue to Evolve
On the origin of an interstellar species.

Sex Is Driven by the Impetus to Change
Hooking up is nature’s way for a species to overcome a bad genomic match.

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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