Each of us has the experience of happiness and despair that love gives. And for many centuries people have been trying to understand what it is. Why do we lose our heads? How to survive rejection? What happens to the feelings of spouses in a long marriage? How to win love and is it possible to keep it? The book by the famous anthropologist Helen Fisher offers new and sometimes unexpected answers to these questions. By scanning the brains of a wide variety of patients, she identified important patterns, starting with the fact that when you fall in love, certain areas of the brain “glow.” Exploring the types of love, its evolution, the processes occurring in the human body and other creatures - from wolves to ducks and chimpanzees - the author gives a scientific explanation of the most amazing manifestations of this universal driving force and great gift.