Sex, Murder, And The Meaning Of Life (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I’m a brand new assistant professor at Montana State University, land of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, where the snow-capped Bridger Mountains are visible from campus. I’ve just given a lecture to a faculty group about my research on human mate preferences, and it’s the questionand-answer period. An anthropology professor in the audience is addressing me with a rather stern tone in her voice. Like many academics, she has acquired the peculiar custom of stating her “questions” in the form of lectures. These lectures-disguised-as-questions are usually delivered in a haughty and didactic tone, meant to set the speaker straight on some topic about which the questioner fancies himself or herself more expert. In my talk, I had made a generalization about human mating strategies, which triggered a minisermon about the range of cross-cultural variations in human mating. The anthropologist seems quite adamant in her conviction that, as a psychologist who conducts laboratory experiments with a narrow sample of American college students, I have absolutely no justification for making any sweeping generalizations about humans as a species.
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