Non-Fiction Notes
Non-Fiction Notes
Month: January 2026
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What Women Want – Desired Traits “Among humans, the evolution of women’s preference for a permanent mate with resources would have required [some] preconditions. … men would have had to differ from each other in their holdings and their willingness to invest those holdings in a woman and her children – if all men possessed…
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What Women Want “It is not androcentric to propose that women’s preferences in a partner are more complex and enigmatic than the mate preferences of either sex of any other species.” Taken broadly, human females appear to exhibit the most complex mate preferences observed across species. “The great initial parental investment of women makes them…
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I am currently reading The Evolution of Desire by David Buss. I don’t really know why I hadn’t read this book earlier. Perhaps the omnipresence of screen media explains it. “Pain, betrayal, and loss contrast sharply with the usual romantic notions of love.” Good Reasons for Bad Feelings by Randolph Nesse comes to mind here.…
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