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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
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Helen E Fisher
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Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.
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A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
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Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
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We're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
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