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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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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
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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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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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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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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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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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Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
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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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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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