Project Gutenberg 2005-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 264 Allen, Grant 1848 1899 Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Reading ease score: 46.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. Falling in love -- Right and left -- Evolution -- Strictly incog. -- Seven-year sleepers -- A fossil continent -- A very old master -- British and foreign -- Thunderbolts -- Honey-dew -- The milk in the coco-nut -- Food and feeding -- De banana -- Go to the ant -- Big animals -- Fossil food -- Ogbury Barrows -- Fish out of water -- The first potter -- The recipe for genius -- Desert sands. Produced by Clare Boothby, Annika Feilbach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science" by Grant Allen is a collection of essays written in the late 19th century. The book explores various scientific themes through a lens that emphasizes the human experience and instincts, particularly the phenomenon of falling in love. Allen argues against the notion that love is a mere distraction from rational selection in human partnerships, positing instead that love is a beneficial, evolutionary instinct designed to enhance human efficiency and the species' survival. At the start of the collection, Allen introduces the contentious topic of love as a natural instinct versus the artificial imposition of societal norms, referencing Sir George Campbell's views on marriage selection. He humorously critiques Campbell's perspective that love is a 'foolish idea' and instead delves into how love, along with physical attraction, serves as a critical mechanism for selecting healthy partners. The opening sets the stage for a broader discussion around various scientific concepts, blending serious biological insights with engaging commentary on human emotions, ultimately defending love as a foundational aspect of human relationships and evolution. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science Q Text Love Browsing: Science - General Browsing: Fiction 710474 710475 2024-10-07T12:28:45.150195 2023-09-08T03:31:31.875940 text/html text/html 714227 2020-12-12T16:50:53 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 275502 2020-12-12T16:50:53 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 375287 2024-10-07T12:28:56.358163 application/epub+zip 385451 2024-10-07T12:28:49.697186 application/epub+zip 351931 2024-10-07T12:28:47.811182 application/epub+zip 741007 2024-10-07T12:29:01.700129 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 703716 2024-10-07T12:28:55.403141 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 661400 2022-09-08T07:40:27.649576 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 687560 687457 2024-10-07T12:28:44.438206 2023-09-08T03:31:31.257931 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 687104 2020-12-12T16:50:53 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 267264 2020-12-12T16:50:53 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 687217 2020-12-12T16:50:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 267103 2020-12-12T16:50:53 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21931 2024-10-07T12:29:01.968248 application/rdf+xml 25189 2024-10-07T12:28:48.663176 image/jpeg 4829 2024-10-07T12:28:48.277176 image/jpeg 372585 2024-10-07T12:28:45.212221 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia