The subtitle" A whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science, should have been my first clue, but i translated whirligig as more whirlwind and i bought the book. I assumed we would dash through the basic concepts of science, and through the race it would be a fun read for a topic I long to ...
Feminist evolutionary biology! Almost an oxymoron. The closest I’d seen to evo-psych that didn’t strongly favor the established construct of “men philander, women are chaste because DARWIN” was Sex at Dawn, and this has a notably more grrl-power bent than that, but without being cloying, intimida...