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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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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Helen E Fisher
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