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The Dissenter · 2026-06-22 · 76 min · 11,692 words

#1270 Paul Eastwick: Evolutionary Psychology Is Wrong About Mating

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined again by Dr. Paul Eastwick. He's professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. In our previous conversation, we focused on his latest book, Bonded by Evolution, The New Science of Love and Connection.

And today we're going to talk a little bit more about it, expand on some of the topics we explored in our last conversation and also perhaps tackle a few that we left out. So Dr. Istwick, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you.

Yeah, I'm so excited to be back. Let's do it. Okay, so uh as my first question, I mean last time we've already talked a little bit about what in your book you told the Evo script that is, I mean the script that evolutionary psychologists tend to associate with uh dating, uh human dating and mating. There's uh three central pillars to it.

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