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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
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
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At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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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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Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
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When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
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Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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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, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
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High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
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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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My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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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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You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
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You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.
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Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.
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