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About the Author
David M. Buss is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Buss previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He is considered the world's leading scientific expert on strategies of human mating and one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology. His books include The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating; Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind; The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex; The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill; and Why Women Have Sex (with Cindy Meston). His most recent book: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (2021) uncovers the evolutionary roots of conflict between the sexes.
Reviews
The two worlds of genetics * the species and the individualhave traditionally gone their own way. This book, with contributions by the top people in the field, brings these two worlds together, creating a synergism that heralds a sea change in the way we think about and study personality. Individual differences within a species are not just noise that is eliminated by natural selection on its way to designing a species type - evolution creates and thrives on individual differences. This book will be a classic! -Robert Plomin, MRC Research Professor in Behavioural Genetics, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London *
This edited volume is a compendium of literature reviews summarizing the latest research on a variety of aspects of human mating strategies from an evolutionary perspective, a field generally characterized as evolutionary psychology...Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. * Choice *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197536438
Author David M. Buss
Format Hardback
Page Count 864
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1676g
Dimensions(mm) 261mm * 190mm * 42mm