In psychology, David Michael Buss (1953-) is an American psychologist, generally considered to be the central founder of evolutionary psychology. Buss is noted for his 1994 book The Evolution of Desire - Strategies of Human Mating, which presented the results of studies, conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, on the nature of sexual selection across cultures that sought to identify underlying evolutionary-mediated psychological mechanisms of human behavior. [1]

Education
Buss earned his Ph.D. in psychology at University of California, Berkeley in 1981, became an assistant professor for four years at Harvard University, was a professor at the University of Michigan for eleven years, and now is a professor at The University of Texas, where he runs Buss Labs on Evolutionary Psychology. [3] He is the author of the noted Evolutionary Psychology textbook, the first of its kind, now in its third edition. [4]

The following set of videos, in seven parts, is Buss speaking at the USM on 12 February 2007. The last video is an interview of American anthropologist Don Symons, author of the 1979 book The Evolution of Human Sexuality, on the subject of evolutionary psychology and sexual selection; the first person Buss began to collaborate with, in the early 1980s, in the development of evolutionary psychology:

David Buss at USM: pt 1 (above), pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6, pt 7.

Human chemistry/thermodynamics
Buss' 1994 book The Evolution of Desire was very influential in the development of the sciences of human chemistry and human thermodynamics by American chemical engineer Libb Thims; a book that Thims began reading circa 1994-95 at the same time he began to think about the issue of how the spontaneity of processes criterion (ΔG < 0) of chemical thermodynamics applied to variations in the spontaneity of the formation of human relationships, e.g. love at first sight relationships (very spontaneous) vs. ambivalent relationships (not spontaneous) (ΔG = 0) vs. arranged or forced relationships (opposite of spontaneous) (ΔG > 0), etc. [2]

References
1. (a) Buss, David M. (1994). The Evolution of Desire - Strategies of Human Mating. New York: Basic Books.
(b) David Buss (professional profile) – SocialPsychology.org
2. (a) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One), (pgs. 151, 175, 337), (preview), (Google books). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
(b) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (pg. 670) (preview), (Google books). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
3. Buss Labs (evolutionary psychology) – University of Texas
4. Buss, David M. (2008). Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Omegatype Typography, Inc.