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13m 26s
In this provocative book, David Buss turns to Darwin's theories from the mid-19th century to explain why humans today choose the mates they do. It might be a hard pill to swallow — the idea that mating preferences aren't entirely conscious choices, but Buss backs it up by extensive research, including a study of more than 100,000 people from 37 cultures across the globe.
Choosing a partner isn’t about romance — it’s evolution. Couples today are still acting on the same principles of sexual selection that drove the earliest humans to reproduce.
It’s a question as old as time: what does the opposite sex want in a partner? In The Evolution of Desire, evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss explores this age-old question and goes on to pose an additional but related query:
Why do they want it?
Buss uncovers answers that involve the once controversial, but now widely accepted theory that evolution plays a role in contemporary desire. Over time, Buss argues, humans have so completely fine-tuned their search for sexual partners that people now innately and subconsciously seek mates whose qualities suggest they’ll be successful at reproduction.
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