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Why women stray: the mate-switching hypothesis

27 mins | Oct 18, 2017

It’s not hard to provide an evolutionary justification for why men stray from committed relationships: it increases their chance of having children. But what motivates women? David Buss explains the mate-switching hypothesis.

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