Theoretical Perspectives Robert Trivers -- Writing Trivers's 1972 Theory of Parental Investment and Sexual Selection Michael Ryan -- Sexual Selection and the Animal's Mating Mind Jennifer Perry & Tracy Chapman - The interface of sexual selection, conflict and evolutionary psychology: emerging core themes David Schmitt -- Extensions of Sexual Strategies Theory across Peoples, Cultures, and Ecologies Attraction and Mate Selection Norman Li & Bryan K. C. Choy -- The Early Stages of Mate Selection Daniel Conroy-Beam -- Computational Models of Mate Choice David M.G. Lewis, Kortnee C. Evans, & Laith Al-Shawaf -- The logic of physical attractiveness: what people find attractive, when, and why Debra Lieberman & Carlton Patrick - Incest Avoidance Adaptations: Evolved function and proximate mechanisms Menalaos Apostalou -- Parental Influence Over Mate Choice Ryan Schacht & Caroline Uggla -- Beyond sex: Reproductive Strategies and Sex Ratio Variation LE Kennair, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Andrea M. Kessler, Steven W. Gangestad, & Mons Bendixen -- Mating Strateges in Sexually Egalitarian Cultures David Frederick, Jenna C. Alley, Scott Semenyna, & Justin R. Garcia -- Mating Strategy Variation by Sexual Orientation Mate Competition David Puts, David Carrier, & Alan R Rogers -- Contest Competition for Mates and the Evolution of Human Males Maryanne Fisher & Jaimie Krems -- An Evolutionary Review of Female Intrasexual Competition Scott W. Semenyna, Francisco R. Gómez Jiménez, & Paul Vasey -- Mate competition between the sexes: Evidence from two non-Western cultures Pair-Bonded Relationship Dynamics Gurit Birnbaum -- Evolving Connections: Attachment and Human Mating Strategies William Jankoviak & Alex J. Nelson -- Archeology of love: A review of the ethnographic exploration of love around the world Andrea Meltzer -- Marital and Sexual Satisfaction John Edlund, Brad Sagarin, & Kristin M. Kinner -- Sex Differences in Jealousy: The State of the Theory Valerie G. Starratt & Todd Shackelford -- Mate Guarding Sexual Conflict in Mating Gayle Brewer -- Deception in Human Mating Brooke Scelza -- Marriage and Monogamy in Cross-cultural Perspective Valerie G. Starratt & Todd Shackelford -- Sperm Competition Joshua Duntley -- Violent Mates Peter Jonason & Vlad Burtaverde -- The Dark Triad and Human Mating Strategies Kingsley Browne -- Sexual Harassment Joe Camilleri -- Sexual Coercion Rachel M. James, Melissa M. McDonald, & Viviana Weekes-Shackelford -- Women's Avoidance of Sexual Assault Mating and Endocrinology James Roney -- Hormones and Human Mating Steven Gangestad, Tran Dinh, Lauren Lesko, Martie Haselton -- Understanding Women's Estrus and Extended Sexuality: The Dual Sexuality Framework Julia Sterns & Lars Penke -- Ovulatory cycle effects and hormonal influences on women's mating psychology Katja Cunningham & Sarah E. Hill -- The Impact of Hormonal Contraceptives on Women's Sexual and Mating Psychology Mating in the Modern World Helen Fisher & Justin Garcia -- Mate Choice in the Digital Age Catherine Salmon and Rebecca Burch -- Popular Culture and Human Mating: Artifacts of Desire Cari Goetz -- Evolutionary Mismatch and Human Mating: Understanding the Mating Mind in the Modern World

The two worlds of genetics -- the species and the individual -- have 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 DS 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

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.

Selling point: Features contributions from top evolutionary biologists and evolutionary psychologists in the field Selling point: Edited by an expert in the field who is cited as one of the 50 most influential psychologists in the world, and is viewed as the world's foremost scientific expert on the study of human mating strategies