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 few decades its
ideas have permeated our culture and fuelled a narrative that inspires despair and anxiety -
and in its most extreme form these ideas have been hijacked in the service of misogyny and
violence. But the truth about human attraction - and the way evolution plays out in our
romantic lives - is much more interesting and optimistic. Bonded by Evolution offers a
radical new picture of the roots of enduring chemistry. Distilling evolutionary biology
anthropology and psychology and informed by his pathbreaking research and original experiments
at the Attraction and Relationships Research Laboratory in California psychology professor
Paul Eastwick reveals how attraction is best depicted as a process of finding - and often
creating - a compatible relationship. Once we understand how ancestral humans sought
compatible partners in small networks we can build a clearer - and brighter - picture of how
attraction sex and relationships really work. --------------------- 'One of the most
joyfully uplifting antidotes to 21st-century gloom.' THE TIMES 'Profound and pragmatic
suggesting an entirely different approach to the study - and pursuit - of love.' ERIC
KLINENBERG co-author of Modern Romance 'Rarely have scientific rigor and exuberant optimism
been such congenial companions . . . Bonded by Evolution presents an optimistic new paradigm
one that provides clear guidance for romantic success.' ELI FINKEL author of The All or
Nothing Marriage
