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#282 – David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences

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Is Mate Switching a Critical Strategy?

Mate switching sounds like a, so from a game theory perspective, from an engineering perspective, it seems to make a lot more sense unless you put a lot of value in lifelong sort of in the long term mating. And maybe we do psychologically. Maybe there's a big evolution advantage to that. But we also know that divorce is, you know, and breakups are also common and occur in all cultures. So, that's- We're just not very good at this thing. Well, either we're not good at the mate selection such that maybe we're not incorporating all the various factors. All the variables well, or we're just not good at monogamy period from an evolutionary

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