David Buss's 1994 book presenting the evolutionary psychology of human mating — covering mate preferences, the logic of jealousy, short-term and long-term mating strategies, and the conflicts of interest between the sexes.
Made the evolutionary explanation for human mating behavior accessible and empirically grounded — explaining jealousy as an adaptive response to paternity uncertainty, sex differences in mate preferences as evolved solutions to different reproductive constraints, and conflict between sexes as structural feature of sexual reproduction.
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