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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.
Helen Fisher
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
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Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
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Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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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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I was married and divorced at 23.
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