It is a clarion call for putting positive relationships at the centre of our lives. Friendship illuminates the vital aspects of friendship, both visible and invisible, and offers a refreshingly optimistic vision of human nature. Blending compelling science, storytelling, and a grand evolutionary perspective, she delineates the essential role that cooperation and companionship play in creating human (and non-human) societies. With insight and warmth, Lydia weaves past and present, biology and neuroscience, to show how our bodies and minds are designed for friendship, and how this is changing in the age of social media.

Image by SanaStock/Shutterstock M y mother-in-law, Carol, lives alone. To be friends, individuals have to have put in some time together, creating a relationship that is stable and reliable. Friendship Is a Lifesaver By Lydia Denworth April 16th, 2020 Nautilus Topics: Emotions and Relationships, Science and Health Science is showing us the best remedy for aging is friends. Lydia meets scientists at the frontiers of brain and genetics research, and discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, our genomes, and our cardiovascular and immune systems its opposite, loneliness, can kill. At a minimum, a good friendship requires three things. She finds that the human capacity for friendship is as old as humanity itself, when tribes of people on the African savanna grew large enough for individuals to seek meaningful connection with those outside their immediate families. In this heartwarming talk, science writer Lydia Denworth asks: What would happen if we made friendship the template of all our relationships She discusses the biology and evolution of this connection between individuals. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds? In Friendship, science journalist Lydia Denworth takes us in search of the biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations of this important bond. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. When science journalist Lydia Denworth spoke to us, her book, Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Lifes Fundamental Bond. The phenomenon of friendship is universal.

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