The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating Audiobook (Free)

The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love.

If most of us want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished human relationships? To solution this question we should look into our evolutionary previous, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Centered among the largest research of individual mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all age range from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Advancement of Desire about The Advancement of Desire: Strategies of Individual Mating may be the initial work to provide a unified theory of human being mating behavior. Drawing on an array of examples of mating behavior — from lovebugs to elephant seals, in the Yanomamö tribe of Venezuela to internet dating apps — Buss reveals what females want, what men want, and just why their wishes radically differ. Like has a central place in human sexual mindset, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human mating — something we must confront to be able to control our own mating destiny.

Updated to reflect the very most recent scientific research about individual mating, this definitive edition of this classic function of evolutionary psychology clarifies the powerful causes that shape our most seductive desires.