Macken Murphy

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Modern Wisdom · The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtable - #1133 · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And you'll hear different Evo social scientists from different backgrounds argue for very different cases.

I personally, and I think in reading Steve's work, he's actually been quite influential to me in this, I personally think that the monogamy case is stronger for a few reasons that I could speak of.

And one of them actually is just that what we've said in this conversation is like, yeah, in theory, we've deregulated the market.

So it's like, look, if an attractive man, honestly, even if a kind of good looking man wants to just have infinite sexual partners, essentially, that is on the table for him, right?

He can spend a lot of time doing that.

But in the data, we're not really seeing people do that.

Even though you're now as sexually permitted to do basically whatever you want with minimal judgment, right?

Most of what people do is still just do the boring thing and make monogamous.

And the honeymoon period typically lasts around about that long.

Yeah, it's like 85% fertility for a couple for one year, then it jumps up to in the 90s after two years.

Are you talking about the PNAS paper that we did?

Yeah, well, I mean, this is something that I could talk about for hours.

So please, you know, tell me to shut up after 30 to 50 seconds if you can manage it.

But basically... What are you going to say, 30 to 50 minutes?

I don't know.

Yeah.

So there's been a longstanding debate over the last, I would say, 37 years.

I mean, it's been intense for 37 years, but it actually predates that even.

about the causes of sex differences in mate preferences.

And a huge variable that people consider in this topic, probably the variable, if you were going to pick just one, is gender inequality.

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