Non-Fiction Notes
Non-Fiction Notes
Month: February 2026
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Beauty fades. Personality remains.
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When you look at YouTube, you find countless pop-psychology or dating-guru explanations about what men desire and what women desire in a partner. But if you truly want to examine these preferences in depth—if you want solid, evidence-based knowledge about them—you could read The Evolution of Desire by David Buss. Over countless millennia, humans evolved…
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~”You shall know a man by the company he keeps.”
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The central question of the book is:What constituted adaptive behavior in ancestral environments? A related question follows naturally:What constitutes adaptive behavior in modern environments? I will shortly provide a comprehensive summary of the entire book. I have already shared summaries of all ten chapters.