Dr Helen Fisher - author and presenter of the BBC World Service Love series -
has studied the nature of love extensively.

In her recent research, she has focused on the drive for romantic love and presents some of her conclusions in these four programmes.

"What ‘tis to love?" Shakespeare asked. The great bard was not the first to wonder - our ancestors pondered this question a million years ago as they lay and watched the stars.

There are many kinds of love. But, anthropologist Dr. Fisher, has come to believe that during our long evolutionary past, human beings evolved three basic brain networks for loving as they courted, mated, reproduced and reared their young: lust, romantic attraction and attachment.

And as days turned into centuries and nature weeded out those who failed to reproduce, natural selection hardwired these three distinct systems into the human brain.


The Science of Love


Helen Fisher
First flush of love
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