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High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
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New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.
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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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The human brain is built to compare it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!
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Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.
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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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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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There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.
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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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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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We're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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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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Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.
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