"Kate Fox" is a Cultural anthropology/social anthropologist, co-director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. She has written several books, including Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.

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Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brains. If we didn't initiate contact with the opposite sex, then we wouldn't reproduce, and the species would die out.

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The effect would be that (the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality) could no longer assume discharge water of a certain quality is being put to beneficial use.

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After all, eating is natural, but we don't all have good table manners.

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They're interested in developing this statewide and thought they would start with us.

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Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

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The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

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