Renowned anthropologist Dr Helen Fisher, who led pioneering research into how the brain deals with love and passion, has died aged 79 after suffering from endometrial cancer.
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During a career that spanned more than 50 years, Fisher was fascinated by the workings of the brain and its reflection in human behavior. She rose to fame in 2004 after a series of ground-breaking brain scans revealed how that organ deals with sexual attraction, love and rejection.
"After all, if you casually ask someone to go to bed with you and they refuse, you don't slide into depression, or commit suicide or murder; but around the world people suffer terribly from rejection in love," she wrote .
In 1968, Fisher graduated from New York University with a BA in Anthropology and Psychology. She completed her PhD in Physical Anthropology: Human Evolution, Primatology, and Human Sexual Behavior in 1975, and began studying how sexual and other selection mechanisms affected human evolution.
