- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781804945384
- Length: 352 pages
- Price: £12.99
Bonded by Evolution
What We’ve Got Wrong About Love and Connection
THE TIMESOne of the most joyfully uplifting antidotes to 21st-century gloom, and a call for the rising numbers of single young people to get off their phones and back out there in the real dating world.
Rowan Pelling, TELEGRAPHHis new book Bonded By Evolution dismantles myths round sex-based age gaps (women are just as inclined as men to desire younger partners, apparently) and makes the case that men find ambition and high earnings desirable in women – even though the likes of Andrew Tate would have people believe career women are an abomination. Eastwick’s main observation is that the best data arises from watching how men and women interact in real life, rather than mining information from dating sites and swipes.
Anna Murphy, THE TIMESI was fascinated by our piece this week about Paul Eastwick’s new book, Bonded by Evolution, which explores how what we think we want from a heterosexual romantic relationship (to nutshell it: women, power; men, youth) is not actually the case. There are similar crossed wires in the way we think about fashion.
About Paul Eastwick
Paul Eastwick is a Professor of Psychology at UC Davis, where he serves as the head of the Social-Personality Psychology program and the director of the Attraction and Relationships Research Laboratory. Thousands of undergraduate students have taken his course on attraction and close relationships, and he has published over one hundred scientific articles and chapters and won numerous early career awards. His research and writing has been featured in outlets like The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, and Scientific American Mind. He hosts the popular podcast Love Factually with his long-time colleague, Eli Finkel, where they analyze rom-coms and romantic dramas from the perspective of relationship science. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Cornell University and his PhD at Northwestern University.
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