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...fair amount of New Age flimflam associated with the movement. But many adherents like Loving More leader Ryam Nearing prefer to dwell on science. "People are biologically poly," she asserts, noting that polyamory occurs even in societies that punish it by death. Polyamorists love the work of Helen Fisher, a Rutgers University anthropologist and author of Anatomy of Love. Fisher has written that only 16% of cultures on record actually prescribe monogamy; in most, polygamy is sought after by men as a sign of power. Fisher also completed a study of divorce in 62 societies, which revealed that people have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Fisher has a more complex view. She says we have conflicting evolutionary impulses: lust (to ensure progeny), attraction (to conserve mating energy for good catches) and attachment (to allow us to stay with someone at least long enough to raise a child through infancy--about four years). "So these polyamory people are fascinating," Fisher says. "They are trying to be realistic." Still, if "polyamory is extremely mature," she adds, "it is also extremely naive." Jealousy will never fade permanently, she says. Indeed, just about every polyamory website, meeting and publication is obsessed with curing jealousy. It is the polyamorists' worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Sapped by the departure of Fisher and Ewing, who combined to average better than 16 points and 11 rebounds per game, the frontcourt will have to rededicate itself to themes Sullivan has always emphasized--man-to-man defense and rebounding...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Era Dawns for M. Hoops | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

That learning curve will be a theme--none of the returning frontcourt players defend as well as Fisher or block shots as well as Ewing, so establishing a presence in the lane will be critical...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Era Dawns for M. Hoops | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...least initially, the Crimson's success will turn on integrating its five new faces into an offense that has lost its main cogs in Hill, Beam and Fisher...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Era Dawns for M. Hoops | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

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