Description
''An ambitious addition to the ever-growing shelves of books on sex wars.... Buss is refreshingly evenhanded.'' -- Elle ''Clear, coherent, and convincing....'' -- Philadelphia Inquirer --This text refers to the audioCD edition. David M. Buss , one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in evolutionary psychology and the psychology of human mating. He is the author of several books, including The Evolution of Desire, Evolutionary Psychology, and The Dangerous Passion. His and Cindy M. Mestons article ''Why Humans Have Sex'' garnered international attention when it was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.
Features & Highlights
- A “drop-dead shocker” (
- Washington Post Book World
- ) that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love
- If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide,
- The Evolution of Desire
- is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behavior — from lovebugs to elephant seals, from the Yanomamö tribe of Venezuela to online dating apps — Buss reveals what women want, what men want, and why their desires radically differ. Love has a central place in human sexual psychology, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human mating — something we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny.Updated to reflect the very latest scientific research on human mating, this definitive edition of this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires.
