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A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

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.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

A world without love is a deadly place.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.

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.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

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.

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.

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

love is like Someone is camping in your head

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.

Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.