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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
Helen Fisher
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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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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We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
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