"I am the concrete one", assures Miguel Pita, geneticist and professor at the UAM, amidst laughter. On his WhatsApp, his profile picture is a fragment of an abstract painting painted by his father, the architect and painter Juan Pita. The scientist has published El cerebro enamorado (Periférica, 2025), a popular science book about the biology of love, from the first sting to the last argument.