Helen Fisher Quotes
Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.
Fisher, Helen. Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray. W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
When Augustus first achieved power, he shared it with Marc Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in a military dictatorship known as the Second Triumvirate. Augustus was the most influential of the 3, and he eventually pushed the other two out and ruled alone as Emperor.
In a variant of Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904} Caro focused on what people did with power once they had achieved it. This, he believed, revealed character.
Helen Fisher is an American anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author. She is a biological anthropologist, is a senior research fellow, at The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and a member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
