EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY Summarized
Why We Do What We Do: The Biology of Human Nature, Mating Strategies, and Social BehaviorBy Devon KadeRecorded TrackLength8h 35m
About this audiobook
YOU ARE RUNNING 200,000-YEAR-OLD SOFTWARE IN A 21ST-CENTURY WORLD.
Why do you crave sugar even when you’re full? Why does a rejection on a dating app feel like a physical blow? Why do we gossip, worry about status, and divide the world into "us" vs. "them"?
Stop fighting your nature and start understanding it. Inside, you will discover:
The Mismatch Hypothesis: Why modern life causes anxiety, obesity, and depression (and how to fix it).
The Science of Mating: The ruthless mathematics behind attraction, infidelity, and why men and women evolved different sexual strategies.
The "Selfish Gene": Why we help our family, why we trust strangers (sometimes), and the biology of altruism.
Status & Hierarchy: The evolutionary reason you care what other people think of you.
The Roots of Tribalism: Why the human brain is hardwired for "Us vs. Them" conflict and how to override it.
Cheater Detection: How your brain instinctively spots liars and social parasites.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Science and Nature
Length8 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
101. Title and Blurb
202. Natural Selection and the Three Ingredients
303. Sexual Selection: The Peacock’s Tail
404. The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA)
505. Products of Evolution: Adaptations, By-products, and Noise
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606. The Adapted Mind: Domain-Specificity
707. Food Acquisition and the Hunter-Gatherer Hypothesis
808. Navigating the Physical World: Shelter and Landscape Preferences
909. Fears, Phobias, and Predator Defense
1010. The Behavioral Immune System: Disgust and Disease
1111. Parental Investment Theory
1212. Women’s Long-Term Mating Strategies
1313. Men’s Long-Term Mating Strategies
1414. Short-Term Sexual Strategies
1515. Sexual Conflict and the Battle of the Sexes
1616. Sperm Competition and Mate Guarding
1717. Kin Selection and Hamilton’s Rule
1818. Parent-Offspring Conflict
1919. The Grandmother Hypothesis
2020. Reciprocal Altruism and Social Exchange
2121. The Cheater Detection Mechanism
2222. Status, Prestige, and Dominance Hierarchies
2323. Coalitional Psychology and In-Group/Out-Group Bias
2424. Aggression as a Solution to Adaptive Problems
2525. Theory of Mind and Machiavellian Intelligence
2626. Language: The Social Glue
2727. The Evolution of Morality and Fairness
2828. Religion and Supernatural Belief
2929. Co-evolution of Culture and Biology
3030. The Mismatch Hypothesis
3131. Evolutionary Psychopathology
3232. Consumer Behavior and Costly Signaling
3333. Further Reading: A Library for the Aspiring Expert
3434. Epilogue: The Ape at the Controls
3535. Closing
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