Horstman - The Scientific American book of love, sex, and the brain: the neuroscience of how, when, why, and who we love

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Horstman, Judith.

The Scientific American book of love, sex, and the brain : the neuroscience of how, when, why, and who we love / Judith Horstman. 1st ed.

p. cm. (Scientific American ; 3)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-64778-3 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-118-10951-9 (ebk.); ISBN 978-1-118-10952-6 (ebk.); ISBN 978-1-118-10953-3 (ebk.)

1. Love. 2. Sex (Psychology) 3. Sex (Biology) 4. Neurosciences. I. Scientific American, inc. II. Title. III. Title: Book of love, sex, and the brain.

BF575.L8H663 2012

155.3dc23

2011029321

To my family, my friends, and my Tribe, who taught me the meaning of love