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Book Review: The Love That Dares to Constitute an Evolutionary Mystery

Book Review: The Love That Dares to Constitute an Evolutionary Mystery Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2010. 8(4): 751-753 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review The Love that Dares to Constitute an Evolutionary Mystery A review of Aldo Poiani, Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial Perspective. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK and NY, USA US$60.42, ISBN 978-0521145145 (paperback). David P. Barash, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Email: dpbarash@u.washington.edu. Everybody likes a mystery … except for those who don’t. But if you are someone who does, you couldn’t do better than to consult some of the conundrums of evolutionary biology, especially when it comes to our own species: e.g., why do people make art, why is religion a cross-cultural universal, why consciousness, why bipedalism, why hairlessness, why, why, why? Science is our best way – I would argue, our only genuine way – of getting answers about the natural world, and indeed, nearly every book about science endeavors to share these answers, even though it is the mysteries, the things we don’t know, that really give the pursuit of science its particular thrill (Barash, in press). Among these, one of the most notable involves homosexuality. As Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union in 1939, same-sex erotic preference is a “riddle wrapped in a mystery http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Evolutionary Psychology SAGE

Book Review: The Love That Dares to Constitute an Evolutionary Mystery

Evolutionary Psychology , Volume 8 (4): 3 – Oct 1, 2010
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Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2010. 8(4): 751-753 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review The Love that Dares to Constitute an Evolutionary Mystery A review of Aldo Poiani, Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial Perspective. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK and NY, USA US$60.42, ISBN 978-0521145145 (paperback). David P. Barash, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Email: dpbarash@u.washington.edu. Everybody likes a mystery … except for those who don’t. But if you are someone who does, you couldn’t do better than to consult some of the conundrums of evolutionary biology, especially when it comes to our own species: e.g., why do people make art, why is religion a cross-cultural universal, why consciousness, why bipedalism, why hairlessness, why, why, why? Science is our best way – I would argue, our only genuine way – of getting answers about the natural world, and indeed, nearly every book about science endeavors to share these answers, even though it is the mysteries, the things we don’t know, that really give the pursuit of science its particular thrill (Barash, in press). Among these, one of the most notable involves homosexuality. As Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union in 1939, same-sex erotic preference is a “riddle wrapped in a mystery

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Published: Oct 1, 2010

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