Book review.

[bunnikins]

I finished reading Sex at Dawn. And I was, overall, underwhelmed. It wasn't very interesting. It didn't seem very...I don't know what I'm trying to say. The authors seemed to be trying constantly trying to remind the reader that this was a Very Important Book full of Groundbreaking Sciencey Truths, but there wasn't really anything to back that up

Comments

[meleah]

This sort of thing drives me absolutely bonkers, of course. The 'scientific' credentials are often questionable and the woolly-headed understanding of evolution infuriating. Whatever the argument, it almost always amounts to a 'just so' story with cherry picked 'evidence' that is so culturally mediated as to be utter nonsense. If I burned books, this kinda crap would be on my bonfires.

[bunnikins]

Exactly - I am not even remotely a scientist, and I still kept finding myself reading certain passages and thinking 'You call that evidence? Show your work!'

I do not disagree with the premise of the book. But I certainly don't think it made a convincing arguement for anything. Except possibly that humans are more closely related to bonobos than chimpanzees. Which it convinced me of by the bludgeon method, since it's brought up on almost every page!

[lirion]

Completely unrelated, but Merry Birthaversary Rabbit! :-)

[bunnikins]

Thank you:)