LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Love and Science

To the Editor:

As I read Helen Fisher's "Of Lost Love and Old Bones" (The Chronicle Review, June 6), I was disturbed by the assumed biological equating of romantic and passionate love with the evolutionary compulsion to procreate. What of women past the age of procreation who fall in love? What of lesbians who fall in love? What of gay men who fall in love? It...

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