Why people recommend it
Mate by Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology-inspired dating and self-improvement guide designed to help men understand modern mating dynamics and become the partners women want. George Mack recommended the book on Modern Wisdom as his go-to niche guide for dating, while Chris Williamson repeatedly championed the title across multiple podcast episodes, calling it a brilliant and essential read for both men and women to understand evolutionary psychology principles, slut-shaming, and sexual economics. Williamson noted that co-author Geoffrey Miller is one of the foundational figures of evolutionary psychology, pairing academic insights with practical dating advice. During subsequent episodes of Modern Wisdom, Williamson continued to reference the book's insights into dating market dynamics, hookup culture, and human behavior. Speakers emphasized that the text remains one of the best evolutionary psychology-informed dating guides available, offering valuable frameworks for navigating romance, attractiveness, and relationship psychology in the modern world.
Who recommended it
- Chris Williamson Recommended
- George Mack Recommended
Chris Williamson — 7 mentions
“And then Jeffrey Miller and Tucker Max did Mate. So the twocar garage for guys. It gets a bit old. It's kind of showing my age weirdly cuz they're both written in the teens or the tens. Uh Mate by Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller.”
“I read this in, uh, Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller's book, Mate, which is about 10 years old, but is probably the best evolutionary psychology informed dating book that exists. They said, why does [ __ ] shaming exist”
“Mate, Become the Man Women Want is probably the best men's dating advice book of all time.”
“it seems to me that books like mate by Toca Max and Jeffrey Miller if you've been familiar with that so they basically did this about 10 years ago and they Jeffrey Miller is one of the fathers of evolutionary psychology”
“so there's an interesting uh insight i learned from jeffrey miller evolutionary psychologist so his book mate that he wrote with tucker max which should have been so much bigger than it was”
“the thing that surprised me when i was watching reading mate your book which is [ __ ] dope by the way if there are guys out there that want to kind of learn the principles of evolutionary psychology for mating and i think that women should read that book as well”
“i would add one book in i'm only halfway through it's called mate and it's by jeffrey miller and tucker max and it's an evolutionary psychologist and a guy that's partied for a decade um become the man women want”
George Mack — 1 mention
“So mine my my kind of go-to for this is a little bit niche, but it's Mate by Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller. to become the man women want the evolutionary psychology inspired dating book for men.”
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Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“primalpoly.com is my website um and probably the best books if you're interested in reading something i've written as uh the mating mind or spent or mate or virtue signaling”
“I did a podcast with Tucker max a couple years ago the mating grounds where it was sort of related to our mate book that was dating advice for young single guys”