As I am away for a few weeks, I am raiding the archives for old material not published here before, mainly on the theme of human nature. ‘The Nature of Sex’ was the title of the second of three talks entitled ‘Man Beast and Zombie’ that explored the political impact of evolutionary psychology and were broadcast on BBC Radio 4′s Westminster Hour in October/November 2001. (I published the first talk in this series, ‘Stone Age Politics’, earlier this month.) Inevitably the examples […]

Categories: Politics, Science & Technology • Tags: evolutionary psychology, glass ceiling, helen fisher, helena cronin, human nature, kingsley browne, rape, robert wright, sex differences, sex discrimination