If we all want love why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past argues prominent psychologist David M Buss Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken encompassing more than 10000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behaviour Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behaviourfrom lovebugs to elephant seals from the Yanomamoe tribe of Venezuela to online dating apps Buss reveals what women want what men want & why their desires radically differ Love has a central place in human sexual psychology but conflict competition & manipulation also pervade human matingsomething we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny Fully revised & updated to reflect the very latest scientific research on human mating this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires