Published: December 2021

Keywords:
Love, aggression, biology, cultural alienation, human identity, self development, neoteny, sexuality, biology of love, Humberto Maturana, Gerda Verden-Zoller.

Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana Romesín is a Chilean biologist and epistemologist. Along with Francisco Varela, he developed the concept of autopoiesis. He is also the author (with Varela) of The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Maturana received a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard and worked with Jerome Lettvin at MIT. He is co-founder, with Ximena Dávila Yañez, of Matriztica de Santiago. With her, he is the co-author of The Tree of Living: Toward a Cultural Transformation, now in press.

Abstract

This text was republished from the website http: // members. ozemail.com.au/ ~ jcull / articles / bol.htm courtesy of H. Maturana.

It has also been published in the following book: Maturana, H. R. and Verden-Zoller, G. (1996). Biology of Love. In G. Opp. and F. Peterander (Ed.). Focιιs Heilpadagogik. Munich: Ernst Reinhardt.

The "classic" text published in Metalogos, Issue 8, December 2005 after permission by Maturana himself at the time.

Translation 2005: Chrysoula Azizoglou, Evangelia Nikiforou.

Editing 2005: Eleftheria Tseliou, Dimitris Basoglou.

Editing & translation 2021: Efrosini Moureli.