Bonded by Evolution

A ground-breaking look at the science of love and connection and an urgent corrective to some of our most fundamental assumptions about attraction. 'In a world saturated with cynical advice about dating and gender, this book is a revelation . . . Bonded by Evolution is rigorous science written with warmth and moral clarity.' DANIEL H. PINK, author of Drive and The Power of Regret --------------------- We re told that what men and women desire from relationship is different he s looking for novelty, she s looking for commitment; he s concerned with looks, she s concerned with status. We re told that we live in a hierarchy of romantic inequality where some are 10s and others are 2s; where some people are marriage material and others are wired for promiscuity. But this narrative is unscientific. Such ideas have their roots in a branch of science called evolutionary psychology, and over the past