by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá
This book had a lot of interesting information, but I can understand why Mari Ruti criticized the last few chapters in The Age of Scientific Sexism. It's like the authors forgot everything they had just been saying about women's sexuality in the previous few chapters and focused solely on men. That ...
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...
I was a bit nervous about reading this book - not another tract on evolutionary psychology, and how humans are all just bonobos at heart! Fortunately, it’s much more than that, and the authors dissect evolutionary psychology with such surgical precision that I was mentally cheering at several points...
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...
A popularizer's polemic against evolutionary psychology vis-a-vis the doctrine and institution of monogamy. The book is well-humored, and the prose reads well. The broad strokes of the argument are difficult to dispute, and I wouldn't want to dispute them. Monogamy earned this ass-kicking--and it...
Although this book has a definite agenda (getting away from the focus on monogamy as the "true" relationship form for all humans), which is why I waited so long to read/listen to it, this is in fact exactly my kind of popular science read: honest about its bias. managing to impart some knowledge I d...
I definitely found this book to be thought-provoking. Even if you disagree with the book's central point, you can't deny that it's thought-provoking, which is where its strength lies.The central premise of Sex at Dawn is that the human institution of monogamous relationships is a socially-constructe...
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