鈥淲hy can鈥檛 a woman be more like a man?鈥�, Professor Higgins鈥檚 plaintive cry in
My Fair Lady echoes throughout Bobbi Low鈥檚 Darwinian analysis of human
sexual behaviour. Her answer to Why Sex Matters is simple, if rather
ponderously argued: we are just another 鈥渃ritter鈥� and the two sexes have evolved
different strategies to maximise their reproductive success. So feminists
needn鈥檛 bother asking the opposite question . . . Published by Princeton
University Press, 拢18.95, ISBN 0691028958.
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