Name: 【TED】Helen Fisher: Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why (Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why | Helen Fisher)
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I was recently traveling in the Highlands of New Guinea,

and I was talking with a man who had three wives.

I asked him, "How many wives would you like to have?"

Eighty-six percent of human societies permit a man to have several wives:

But in the vast majority of these cultures,

only about five or ten percent of men actually do have several wives.

Having several partners can be a toothache.

In fact, co-wives can fight with each other,

sometimes they can even poison each other's children.

And you've got to have a lot of cows, a lot of goats,

Ninety-seven percent of mammals do not pair up to rear their young;

that we're necessarily sexually faithful to our partners.

I understand some of, actually, the genetics of it,

I and my colleagues have put over 100 people into a brain scanner --

people who had just fallen happily in love,

people who had just been rejected in love

And it is possible to remain "in love" long-term.

that we've evolved three distinctly different brain systems

and feelings of deep cosmic attachment to a long-term partner.

And together, these three brain systems --

orchestrate our sexual, our romantic and our family lives.

way below the limbic system where we feel our emotions,

They lie in the most primitive parts of the brain, linked with energy,

focus, craving, motivation, wanting and drive.

They evolved over 4.4 million years ago among our first ancestors,

and they're not going to change if you swipe left or right on Tinder.

There's no question that technology is changing the way we court:

We're seeing new rules and taboos for how to court.

is this actually dramatically changing love?

How about the introduction of the birth control pill?

Unchained from the great threat of pregnancy and social ruin,

women could finally express their primitive and primal sexuality.

I'm Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com,

I keep telling them and they agree with me,

your ancient brain snaps into action like a sleeping cat awakened,

and parade the way our ancestors did 100,000 years ago.

but the only real algorithm is your own human brain.

Technology is also not going to change who you choose to love.

that we've evolved four very broad styles of thinking and behaving,

So I created a questionnaire directly from brain science

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