# To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxPSU
- Speaker: David Puts
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/david_puts_to_find_your_perfect_mate_think_like_an_evolutionist)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/david_puts_to_find_your_perfect_mate_think_like_an_evolutionist/6e082b9fe513), 16 min (TED's player)