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Find out why we're addicted to love

with anthropologist Helen Fisher

June 9, 2006
1 hours 54 minutes
Helen Fisher


Helen Fisher is an anthropologist who studies the evolution of love, sex, marriage and gender differences in humans. She is a Research Professor and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University, and a Chief Scientific Advisor to the online dating site Chemistry.com. Fisher has authored four books including Why We Love: the Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love and The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They are Changing the World.

Books by Helen Fisher:

Why We Love: The Nature of Chemistry and Romantic Love, 2004

The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World, 2000

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray, 1994