I am sitting in a lecture by Larry Young PhD of the Yerkes Regional Primate Center here in Atlanta, GA. His research is on the neurobiology of social bonds. Since many of the readers of the Drug News and Health Safety News often wonder about how things that happened in early childhood affect how things go in later life I thought this would be of interest.

He studies an animal called the prairie vole (Microtus ochragaster), which is unusual in forming life long mating bonds.