The science of love.
Neurochemistry, attachment theory, evolutionary biology, and what brain scans actually show. The body is doing a specific program when you fall in love. Knowing what it is doesn't ruin it; it does explain a lot.
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Why we evolved to love — the survival problem love was built to solve.
Love isn't a luxury or a cultural invention. It's an ancient biological system that solved one of evolution's hardest problems: how do you get two people to stick together for the 15 years a human child needs to grow up?
ArticleHow scientists actually study love.
fMRI scans, hormone assays, prairie vole genetics, and 40 years of couples in conflict labs. A short tour of the methods behind what we think we know about love.
ArticleThe neuroscience of love — what's actually happening in your brain.
Dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, and the ancient brain systems that make new love feel like an addiction and long love feel like home. The biology, written for humans.
ArticleThree meanings hiding inside one word.
The word love does a lot of jobs. The dopamine rush, the slow oxytocin warmth, the daily practice — three meanings, one word.
ArticleAttachment styles: the relationship blueprint you learned before you could talk.
Secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized. About 80% of relationship patterns come from the way you learned to need people in early childhood — and the patterns can change.
ListThe books that taught us most about love.
A short, curated reading list — neuroscience, philosophy, attachment, and the practice of long love.
ListThe best resources on the evolutionary biology of love.
Articles, reviews, talks, and videos that explain why love evolved — written for general audiences, not specialists. Hand-curated from the academic literature and the public-facing side of it.