Nature Girl.(Review)

From: National Review | Date: June 14, 1999| Author: Lowry, Richard | Copyright information

Woman: An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin, 398 pp., $25)

When Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson first popularized the theories of evolutionary psychology in his 1975 book Sociobiology, feminists had a fit. How could anyone maintain that differences between the sexes might not be easily erased cultural artifacts, but our very genetic inheritance, "hard-wired" through millennia of natural selection? Incredulous women fought back: They picketed and dis...

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