Past research has put forward competing hypotheses about the determinants of the evolvement of romantic love, including it being a consequence of economic development or the result of transmission of culture. A new large-scale empirical study by Baumard et al.1 puts these different hypotheses to the test.
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Bille, T. Love and economic development. Nat Hum Behav 6, 483–484 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01251-0
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