The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love, Lust & Cheating - Dr Anna Machin - #817

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Anna Machin. She's an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University and an author. Love is pretty fascinating. It's this odd cocktail of hormones and neurochemicals that can turn even the most normal person insane. What is it? Why did it evolve? And why do we seem to have no control over when it comes and when it goes? Expect to learn what the evolutionary advantage of love is, the difference between love and lust, why women cheat and who they tend to cheat with, the role of genetics on who you find attractive, what the dark side of love looks like, whether dating apps have changed the way that love and attraction works, how certain types of love can be addicting, and much more. Anna is so great. Her first book, Life of Dad, it was such a game changer for me in terms of sort of explaining how I see the role of men and fatherhood in a child's development. And she's back again. This next book is so great. Her insights about something that everybody knows sort of intuitively, and poets and artists and songwriters have tried to get a handle on. But this time it's using evolution and psychology. Anna, she's so great. There's tons to take away from this one. I really hope that you enjoy it. Before we get into the episode, in case you missed my announcement on Instagram and on my newsletter, I am playing the Eventim Apollo, the old Hammersmith Apollo in London, which fits 3,600 people in on Thursday, the 28th of November this year. It is the only show that I will be doing in all of the UK or anywhere near Europe until 2025 And tickets go on sale very soon. You can get first access to presale tickets by going to chriswilliamson.live.london. Sign up there. Just give your email address and you'll be the first to know when tickets are available. VVIP, meet and greet, watch the sound check and the warm up before everything begins. It's going to be terrifying and crazy and absolutely awesome. And I would love to see you there. So get your tickets chriswilliamson.live.london. This episode is brought to you by Whoop. I've won Whoop for over four years now since way before they were a partner on the show. And it is the only wearable I have ever stuck with because it's the best. It is so innocuous. You do not remember that you've got it on. And yet it tracks absolutely everything 24 seven via something from your wrist. It tracks your heart rate, tracks your sleep, your recovery, all of your workouts, your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, how much you're breathing throughout the night. It puts all of this into an app and spits out very simple, easy to understand and fantastically usable data. It's phenomenal. I am a massive, massive fan of Whoop. And that is why it's the only wearable that I've ever stuck with. You can join for free, pay nothing for the brand new Whoop 4 strap. Plus, you get your first month for free and there's a 30 day money back guarantee. So you can buy it for free, try it for free. And if you do not like it after 29 days, they will give you your money back. Head to join.whoop.com/modernwisdom. That's join.whoop.com/modernwisdom.
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