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Based on 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.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780465097760","publication_date":"20161227","publisher":"Basic Books","slug":"the-evolution-of-desire","subtitle":"Strategies of Human Mating","title":"The Evolution of Desire"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"PSY053000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"How We Evolved to Think","score":0.8,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"PSY016000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Human Sexuality","score":0.61,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SCI027000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Evolution","score":0.28,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"PSY053000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"How We Evolved to Think","score":0.8,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"PSY016000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Human Sexuality","score":0.61,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SCI027000","confidence_band":"unbanded","label":"Evolution","score":0.28,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"PSY016000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Human Sexuality","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"PSY053000","confidence_band":"high","label":"How We Evolved to Think","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"How We Evolved to Think","score":0.8,"slug":"how-we-evolved-to-think"},{"label":"Human Sexuality","score":0.61,"slug":"human-sexuality"},{"label":"Evolution","score":0.28,"slug":"evolution"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in evolutionary explanations of human mating behavior","Readers curious about cross-cultural patterns in love and mating"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Esther Perel","Harper"],"book_id":"9780062322593","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062322593.jpg?v=9a02179bc8922086","score":0.5469,"title":"The State of Affairs","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780062322593"},{"authors":["David Reich"],"book_id":"9781101873465","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781101873465.jpg?v=5f3a9bc31c622388","score":0.4991,"title":"Who We Are and How We Got Here","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781101873465"},{"authors":["Justin R. 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