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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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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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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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There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this mortal coil.
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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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Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.
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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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I was married and divorced at 23.
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We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.
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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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Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
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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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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.
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As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
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We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
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Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.
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There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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