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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
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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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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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Romantic love is an addiction.
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You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
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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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I was married and divorced at 23.
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When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
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Men and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.
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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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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 were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
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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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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're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
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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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Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
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Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
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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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