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Sep 2022
1h 36m

The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love - Ro...

Chris Williamson
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Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford and an author. Love is something that people have been trying to describe for thousands of years. Beyond asking what love is, is the question of why humans feel something so strange in the first place. Why ... Show More
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