Helen Fisher The science of love and the future of women

Description: Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, it´s biochemical foundations and it´s social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse...

Helen E. Fisher, PhD, is Research Professor and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University. She has conducted extensive research on the evolution and future of human sex, love and marriage and gender differences in the brain and behavior. She has written four books: WHY WE LOVE: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love (Henry Holt, 2004); THE FIRST SEX: The Natural Talents of Women and How They are Changing the World (Random House 1999; Ballantine2000); ANATOMY OF LOVE: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery and Divorce (W.W. Norton 1992; Fawcett 1994); THE SEX CONTRACT: The Evolution of Human Behavior (William Morrow l982; Quill in l983). Helen is currently Chief Scientific Advisor to Chemistry. http://www.chemistry.com where she has collaborated in the development of their Chemistry Profilepersonality assessment and matching system. Using data on patterns of romantic attraction and marriage found on this Internet dating/relationshipsite, she is writing her fifth book, on why you fall in love with one person rather than another.

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