Hrdy was right, of course

Interesting article about evolutionary psychology from Newsweek. Of course, anyone who ever read Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Mother Nature knew the gist of this already. (Or sufficient amounts of Gould, but there the general academic food fight that tended to surround him might obscure things a bit.)

I particulary liked this quote:

But the evidence points toward something gender-neutral. Men and women have both evolved the ability to distinguish between behavior that portends abandonment and behavior that does not, and to get upset only at the former. Which behavior is which depends on the society.

For presumably obvious reasons.

Hrdy was right, of course

Interesting article about evolutionary psychology from Newsweek. Of course, anyone who ever read Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Mother Nature knew the gist of this already. (Or sufficient amounts of Gould, but there the general academic food fight that tended to surround him might obscure things a bit.)

I particulary liked this quote:

But the evidence points toward something gender-neutral. Men and women have both evolved the ability to distinguish between behavior that portends abandonment and behavior that does not, and to get upset only at the former. Which behavior is which depends on the society.

For presumably obvious reasons.