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There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

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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
Biology
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Spiritual
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Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
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Men and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.
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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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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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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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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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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
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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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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
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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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Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
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Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
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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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It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.
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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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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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Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.
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Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
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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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