#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings

Sam Harris speaks with David Buss about the differential mating
strategies of men and women. They discuss the controversy that
surrounds evolutionary psychology, the denial of sex differences,
cross-cultural findings in social science, the replication crisis
in psychology, the biological definition of sex, why men and
women have affairs, ovulatory shifts in mate preference, sex
differences in jealousy and infidelity, the sources of
unhappiness in marriage, mate-value discrepancies, what we can
learn from dating apps, polyamory and polygamy, the plight of
stepchildren, the “Dark Triad” personality type, the MeToo
movement, and other topics.


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