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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Paul Eastwick: The New Science of Love and Connection
Description: Join us at Commonwealth Club World Affairs on February 13 to prepare scientifically for Valentine’s Day.
Paul Eastwick has taken a groundbreaking look at the science of attraction and compatibility, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about how human mating has evolved. Eastwick takes exception to evolutionary psychology’s claim, cloaked in incontrovertible Darwinian terms, that our minds have been shaped by primal drives that pit the genders against each other—from the myth that men are wired to be promiscuous to the notion that wealth, status and beauty are the ultimate aphrodisiacs. Â
Drawing on pathbreaking researc...