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Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
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There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
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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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From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.
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Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
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When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
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I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
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Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
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Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
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A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
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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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Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
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