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Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Helen E Fisher
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
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Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
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As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
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Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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The human brain is built to compare it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.
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