Love is an emotion. To understand what love is for we have to place it in the broader context of the evolutionary function of emotions. One major function of emotions is to energize motivation. If we ...

Since ancient times, people have created art, jewelry, and even tattoos featuring powerful symbols of love. Symbols of love have served as powerful reminders of the importance of love to people in a ...

Love isn't just fodder for poets. For as long as people have been falling for each other, scientists have worked hard to locate the roots of love somewhere in the body. The ancient Greeks and medieval ...

I suggest that the evolutionary history of human romantic love may have progressed along the following lines. As human brains grew and infants became needier and more vulnerable for a longer period of ...