2025-10-02
35 分钟Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials,
where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health,
physical health and performance.
I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
And now my conversation with Dr. David Busse.
David, delighted to be here.
Excited to ask you a number of questions about these super interesting topics about how people select mates just to start off,
perhaps you could just orient us a little bit about mate choice.
You know, some of the primary criteria that studies show men and women use in order to select mates,
transient mates, as well as lifetime mates.
Right.
Well, that's a critical distinction because what people look for in a long-term committed mate ship,
like a marriage partner or a long-term romantic relationship,
is different from what people look for in a hookup or casual sex.
So that's actually critical.
I wonder
if we could maybe just back up a second and just talk a little bit about the theoretical framework for understanding mate choice.
It basically stems from Darwin's theory of sexual selection.
Darwin noticed that there were phenomena that couldn't be explained by this so-called survival selection.
So he came up with the theory of sexual selection,