Helen Fisher may refer to:
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly. ' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.
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.
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.
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.
You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.
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.
Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.
When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.
I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
I was married and divorced at 23.