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I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
Helen Fisher
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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