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What Does Love Do to Us?

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One question for Anna Machin, an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University, where she conducts research on the neurobiology and psychology of human relationships, particularly romantic and parent-child relationships.

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What does love do to us?

he reason love evolved was to motivate and reward us for taking part in relationships, critical to our survival. That goes for our

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