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To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist

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David Puts |

TEDxPSU

• April 2014

Matters of the heart sometimes feel impossible to parse. But when examined through the eye of an evolutionist, our romantic whims and sexual desires can start to make more sense, and even seem a bit predictable. Biological anthropologist David Puts confronts how we compete, care and copulate based on evolutionary biology -- and what that means for our love lives.

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Matters of the heart sometimes feel impossible to parse. But when examined through the eye of an evolutionist, our romantic whims and sexual desires can start to make more sense, and even seem a bit predictable. Biological anthropologist David Puts confronts how we compete, care and copulate based on evolutionary biology -- and what that means for our love lives.

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David Puts

Biological anthropologist

David Puts is an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and a biological anthropologist studying human sexuality, behavior and psychology.

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