Why We Can’t Help Falling in Love

Apparently, all you need is love – but why? What makes it fundamental to our survival, and why doesn’t heartbreak put us off it? Jacob Jarvis speaks to Dr. Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist and author of Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships. 

• “The reason we crave love is that it fulfils a fundamental survival need which is to meet other people.” 
• “Humans are the most cooperative species on the planet. That’s the basis of love.” 
• “To love at the cost of somebody else, while damaging for them, doesn’t harm you.” 
• “In the first weeks of a relationship, your brain can’t notice a bad partner. Love is blind.”
• “There has to be an unpredictable nature to keep us on our toes.” 

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Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Alex Rees. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production

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