It’s Not You, It’s Biology

It’s Not You, It’s Biology – Joe Quirk

Why do men and women so often seem to want different things? Joe Quirk’s answer is that the explanation lies less in personality than in millions of years of evolution.

In It’s Not You, It’s Biology: The Science of Love, Sex, and Relationships, Quirk takes a light-hearted look at what biology, evolutionary psychology and history reveal about the way men and women behave. He explores why we are attracted to certain people, why jealousy exists, why the sexes often communicate so differently, and why so many relationship arguments follow the same familiar script.

Rather than taking sides in the battle of the sexes, Quirk shows how both men and women are shaped by the same evolutionary pressures, just in different ways. Along the way he translates scientific research into plain language, adds plenty of jokes and gives readers a new way to understand the behaviour of their partners, friends and themselves.

The book was first published as Sperm Are from Men, Eggs Are from Women and appears here in its paperback edition. Its playful tone makes the science easy to follow, while its insights offer plenty to talk about long after the last page.

Funny, informative and often surprising, It’s Not You, It’s Biology is a great read for anyone curious about relationships, popular science or the hidden reasons behind everyday human behaviour.