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Ended up being much more on the "Pop" than the "Sci" end of the PopSci continuum. If the fact that evolution is based on more than sexual selection blows your mind, and that evolution of different traits occurs at different speeds, and that culture and society do not always sync logically, progress...
SEX AT DAWN: PrefaceOK, I get the point of this. The preface is trying to make the point that humans are primates, and subject to primate urges. However, this is a DUMB story. Seriously, author? A monkey stealing peanuts you'd meant to give to a different monkey makes you feel 'betrayed in a way you...
My rating does not reflect my opinion about the topic, but rather how the book was written. For a book about sex and relationships, this was kind of boring. The information was not skillfully modulated so as to not inundate the normal reader. The voice of the author also sounds like kind of a smarty...
Extremely interesting. Gave me a lot of food for thought. Plus the writing style was engaging, at time humorous, and very credible.
I tried very hard to finish this book, but I’m going to say that 70% completion is good enough, especially when page 246 summarizes everything in one sentence that is far more pithy than the rest of the book:With any other question we have about the origins of human behavior, we look to chimps and b...
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