Did Evolutionary Psychology Get Dating All Wrong? - Dr Paul Eastwick - #1056

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We were talking before we got started. Uh, many of the past guests that have been on my show and much of my education, I think, into the world of mating dynamics, understanding relationship science, uh, has been informed by an evolutionary perspective. I think it's fair to say that your new book takes somewhat of an opposing perspective to much of the evolutionary psychology position. Is that a a fair assessment?

I think that's fair. I am not using the standard like this is not a standard nature nurture thing. That's not where I'm coming from. I'm coming from a place of actually there's a different way of talking about human nature, a different way of talking about the way that humans evolve to form relationships that I think is kind of missing out there.

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