We are far more likely to find love with someone we already know Thomas Hoepker/Magnum Bonded by EvolutionPaul Eastwick, Cornerstone Press Most of us can tell tales of lost loves and romantic rejections, and psychologist Paul Eastwick is no different. As an undergraduate at the end of the last millennium, Eastwick fell for a fellow student named Anna. She was tall and stunningly beautiful. An aspiring poet who was also fluent in Russian, she hung out with some of the coolest people on campus. He was “doughy-adjacent” (his term) and disliked partying, a “6” to her “9”. They spent some time together, but she ultimately hooked up elsewhere, while Eastwick was, he says, “friend-zoned”. According to one view of relationships – which Eastwick dubs the “EvoScript” – a rejection was inevitable. The dating pool is a “marketplace”, in which each person has an inherent “mate value” – determined by their looks, intelligence, social cachet and bank balance. We are looking for the best possible parent for our offspring, so we try to pair off with …