The Biological Evolution of Love

This book discusses the biological evolution of love from the perspectives of evolutionary biology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, and other disciplines. This interdisciplinary book presents an extensive analysis of the numerous studies, theories, and research findings about the biological evolution of love and love-related constructs. The author has compiled and presented multiple scholarly publications that have been available about the evolutionary science of love over the recent couple of centuries.

This book provides the most comprehensive review of the biological evolution of love in varieties of its types across many species of plants, birds, animals, especially mammals, and in the early human ancestors. The author systematically examines research findings and discoveries focusing on the scholarly knowledge of the evolutionary processes that have been occurring throughout substantial periods of time, thousands and millions of years.

Dr. Victor Karandashev is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, International Institute of Love Studies, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a scholar with extensive international and cross-cultural experience and interests. He has conducted research on international psychology in several European countries, including universities in Germany, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. He was a visiting professor and a Fulbright Scholar in the USA. He has presented his work related to international and cross-cultural psychology at many conferences. He co-edited three volumes of Teaching Psychology aroundthe World (2007, 2009, 2012). His major area of research interest is the study of love and culture, a topic about which he has published several articles, chapters, and monographs. His recent books, Romantic Love inCultural Contexts (2017), Cross-Cultural Perspectives on theExperience and Expression of Love (2019), Cultural Models ofEmotions (2021), Cultural Typologies of Love (2022), and The Varieties of Love as Interpersonal Attraction (2024), are among the most distinguished interdisciplinary contributions to the field.