[PDF] Top 20 Book Review: Women's Evolutionary Enigmas

... How Women Got Their Curves is, for the most part, a pleasure to ...unsolved evolutionary mysteries. Why do women menstruate? Why do they have breasts and other curves? Why do they conceal their ... See full document

... which women, as well as men, compete for quality mates, both for short- and ...long-term. Women sometimes report that they have sex to give them an edge over the competition for high-quality men and that ... See full document

... trade book? After all, the chapters are organized around the six categories, and I couldn’t help but notice that Levitin credits his editor with the initial concept in his ...the book, but he doesn’t offer ... See full document

... of women in ...which women have established over their ...for women to carefully control their reproductive timing has resulted in an older age at first birth within Western ...that women are ... See full document

... pious, the zealous, and the herbally inspired. Of course, evolutionary theory may be only one of several explanations for life on our planet, but it’s the only theory that has held up against disproof. And however ... See full document

... With the advent of kin selection theory there was the realization that one’s inclusive fitness (net genetic representation in future generations) is not only a reflection of their reproductive success, but it is also ... See full document

... from evolutionary scientists who focus on ...In evolutionary research one often uses evolutionary altruism, which refers to behavior of one organism that reduces its own reproductive fitness while ... See full document

... accessible review of the experimental literature on intersubjectivity, its development, and its relationship to the emergence of concepts of intention, not only in others but in the developing infant’s own sense ... See full document

... to women from ...that women, at least occasionally, do engage in ...of women have “temporally concurrent” sex with two or more men in a given ...of women report fantasies of having sex with ... See full document

... The book concludes with a chapter on some of the book’s major themes and includes a thoughtful discussion of the policy implications that arise from an evolutionary view of fatherhood in modern ... See full document

... The last two chapters extract principles to develop a general framework for evolutionary medicine. I enjoyed the section in which the authors make a list of the eight ways in which we are not adapted. The list ... See full document

... After apprising the audience of the high stakes involved in the matter (Introduction), and providing historical context behind ID’s origins (Chapter One), Shanks turns his attention to Darwinian Theory (Chapter Two). ... See full document

... the book on the front cover, recommends the “Pink Rambler” chapter, in which Alkon tracks down a car thief who stole her 1960 Pink Nash Rambler (yes, she located one thief who stole her car out of 17 million ... See full document

... Mark Twain concisely described the principle almost a century ago: “We’re nothing but a ragbag of disappeared ancestors.” We inherited our warlike nature from prehistoric bands that were able to kill their neighbors and ... See full document

... The book’s remaining chapters fall within the more typical subject matter of evolutionary psychology. Stuart Kinner analyzes psychopaths, a mere one percent of the population who account for more than half of ... See full document

... Corsaro ignores many studies of children conducted using an ethological approach (e.g. Smith, 1984). Thus in some respects, Piaget, who did try to relate his work to ethological and evolutionary concerns, stands ... See full document

... There is much to like about this book. It provides a diverse set of views and explanations related to violent behaviors, it focuses on an assortment of violent behaviors ranging from homicides to warfare, and it ... See full document

... an evolutionary approach can be used to generate hypotheses about previously undocumented or unknown ...phenomena. Evolutionary psychologists hypothesized three decades ago that men and women would ... See full document

... Admittedly, the author’s version overstates the degree of affiliation between “average” chimp and dominant male(s), but upon first reading it nonetheless made me smile, since it appealed simultaneously to my own ... See full document

... rejects evolutionary and biological causality because they imply heritable traits, such as sex differences, that set limits to high aspirations, such as the elimination of ...numerous evolutionary accounts ... See full document