Our feelings result a fast information processing mechanism found throughout the vertebrates, and which are highly developed in mammals. What then is ‘love’, really, and how did it evolve?
Agnes Arber was a British botanist and historian of her subject. In 1946 she became the first female botanist – and the third woman overall – to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, one of the oldest and most esteemed scientific institutions in the world.