Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. [Paperback]

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University of Michigan professor Low uses an evolutionary approach to remember of and explain many common human actions. The central question she poses is, "How do environmental conditions influence our behavior and our lifetimes?" While many might balk at reducing high of human interaction merely to a desire to reproduce and offer for our offspring, Low argues persuasively that similar analyses of other species work remarkably well, and she or he provides an abundance of supporting data from studies of cultures including indigenous populations in Africa to 19th-century Sweden. She concludes that men and women, because from the difference within the amounts of sperm and eggs produced, are evolutionarily designed to have disparate ambitions: males seek many mating opportunities, and females focus on acquiring the resources to ensure the survival of these young. Low notes that numerous social problemsAwarfare and environmental degradation among themAare the outcomes in the power, perhaps misdirected, from the reproductive drives of both men and some women (she links war to male aggression and environmental problems on the female drive to acquire resources for that raising of children). Having deduced that "we have created these problems by doing what we've evolved to do," she admits she has no advice about "what to accomplish next." Her findings are not new. Indeed, her biological explanation of what many people now view as socially constructed gender roles is bound to earn her vociferous critics. But her cross-cultural data set makes her conclusions hard to ignore. (Dec.)
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Sex differences, Low says, are central to your lives. Are they genetically programmed or even the results of social traditions? "New research ... props up perhaps unsettling view that men and women have indeed evolved to behave differently." The differences arise from "the fundamental principle of evolutionary biology, that most living organisms have evolved to find and employ resources to improve their reproductive success." Low, a professor of resource ecology in the University of Michigan, develops her argument through examinations of genetics, primate societies, and human behavior past and present. Then she asks a haunting question. Have we, simply by doing well what we've got evolved to do, "changed the rules to ensure that now it may be detrimental to 'strive' to our utmost abilities?" It seems likely, she says, "that we are going to face new problems as growing, and increasingly consumptive, human populations connect to environmental ... stability."
EDITORS OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN --This text refers on the Hardcover edition.