Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher
Helen E. Fisher is an American anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author. She is a biological anthropologist, is a Senior Research Fellow, at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and a Member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.