Showing posts with label pinker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pinker. Show all posts

Nasty, Brutish And Short On Foreplay

(I swiped that title from Barbara Ehrenreich, bless her heart. See "How 'Natural' Is Rape?", Time, January 31, 2000, p. 88.)I’ve been thinking more about Aaron Gillette’s book on the nature-nurture debate, and something occurred to me. Gillette represents the debate as involving two sides, which he calls “evolutionary psychology” (including eugenics, sociobiology, and biological determinism

Nasty, Brutish And Short On Foreplay

(I swiped that title from Barbara Ehrenreich, bless her heart. See "How 'Natural' Is Rape?", Time, January 31, 2000, p. 88.)I’ve been thinking more about Aaron Gillette’s book on the nature-nurture debate, and something occurred to me. Gillette represents the debate as involving two sides, which he calls “evolutionary psychology” (including eugenics, sociobiology, and biological determinism