![]() ![]() ![]() She 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. She finds friendship to be as old as early life on the African savannas-when tribes of people grew large enough for individuals to seek fulfillment of their social needs outside their immediate families. (FAN ’14, ’16) named Friendship one of the best leadership books of 2020.ĭenworth takes us in search of friendship’s biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds? Award-winning science journalist Lydia Denworth’s Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bondis a revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of what humans and animals alike need to thrive across a lifetime. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. ![]() Watch the livestream at The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. ![]()
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