Evolution, Gender, and Rape.(Book Review)

Bradford: MIT. Jan. 2003. c.430p. ed. by Cheryl Brown Travis. index. ISBN 0262-70090-5. pap. $24.95. SCI

The theory of evolutionary psychology, which makes some unapologetic, politically incorrect assertions about human sexuality, has been taking a beating in both the popular and the scholarly press. In Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology, scholars Hilary and Steven Rose called Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer's recent The Natural History of Rape "perhaps the nadir of evolutionary psychology's speculative fantasies." This new collection of 17 essays by 23 scholars from various disciplines continues pounding on Thornhill and Palmer. The …