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How was Your Valentine's Day?

By Geoffrey Miller

3 March 2001

The Science of Love by Glenn Wilson and Chris McLaughlin, Fusion Press,
£9.99, ISBN 1901250547

US Senator William Proxmire once declared, “I believe that some 200 million
Americans want to leave some things in life a mystery, and right at the top of
the list of things we don’t want to know is why a man falls in love with a
woman, and vice versa.” The Science of Love would horrify
Proxmire—arch-enemy of empirical psychology—and for that we should
be grateful.

In just 187 pages this entertaining book covers a sprawling diversity of
research on beauty, love, marriage,…

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