Quote Originally Posted by Innocentius
The love of your closest family... isn't that one quite obvious? A normal person from a normal family will feel love towards his/her relatives as they are means of surviving and keeping your own offspring safe. Loving your parents can be explained to a degree by thankfulness, but also because historically grand parents have a tradition of babysitting their grandchildren, so that's on a more psychological level rather than biological. And finally, loving your children is more natural than anything: biologically, our meaning in life is to reproduce, so not taking care of our offspring would be rather stupid wouldn't it?

Love is all in our heads and, more importantly, in our genes.
But previously you stated that love is just biological phenomena.You are contradicting yourself. I think most of us know what many of our feelings are based on biologically, should the importance of something be less if we can actually understand and analyze it, as i seem to sense from your earlier reply?