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Glad to be home: Hormonal basis of affiliation, competition among hunters in the Bolivian Amazon
Absence, it seems, really does make the heart grow fonder. That's according to new research conducted by anthropologists, who found that levels of the 'love' hormone oxytocin increases among Tsimane men when they come home to their families after a day of hunting.