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Helen Fisher: The science of love, and the future of women

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Uploaded by on Jan 16, 2007

http://www.ted.com Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love - and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
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  • Helen Fisher is spot on at 20:35 about 'Why it is that you fall in love with one person rather than another'.

    I fell very deeply in love with a prof the first time I saw her as a student.

    - I was new in town, it was the first day at university and everything was very exciting to me (high dopamin level)

    - I didn't knew her before (mystery)(high dopamin level)

    - She matched traits of my childhood (similar looks)

    - I was sitting randomly very near to her, we had direct eye contact (proximity)

  • @fight2befree420 Please check yourself into the nearest mental sanitarium. Alternatively, read some science books.

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  • HA! fuckin finally. i've been wondering where big c gets his samples. also i think this whole thing is quite interesting.

  • Have a depressed population or a productive one. Can't have both.

  • @nahkmong I love fossils

    

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  • Question...Humans have been around millions of years? How do we know this? just saying.......women rule the skewl. Peace

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