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...
"Wait a minute," he said. "I have to show you something. You'll love this. You'll absolutely love it." He darted over to a nearby shelf and retrieved from it a white plastic bucket with a lid on it. The lid had several holes punched through it. Professor Wake took off the lid and allowed me to pe...