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Anatomy of love: a natural history of mating, marriage, and why we stray

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Abstract

Prologue -- Games people play courting -- Why him? why her? -- The drive to love and who we choose -- Is monogamy natural? -- Of human bonding-- and cheating -- Why adultery? -- The nature of philandering -- Blueprint for divorce -- The three to four-year itch -- "When wild in woods the noble savage ran" -- Life in the trees -- Out of eden -- On the origin of monogamy and desertion -- The tyranny of love -- Evolution af attachment and love addictions -- Dressed to impress -- Nature's lures for seduction -- Men and women are like two feet-- they need each other to get ahead -- Gender differences in mind -- Women, men, and power -- The nature of sexual politics -- Almost human -- Genesis of kinship and the teenager -- The first affluent society -- That short but imperious word "ought" -- Fickle passion -- Romance in yesteryears -- "Till death do us part" -- Birth of sexual double standards -- Future sex -- Forward to the past -- Appendices -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index