Quiz on Thursday!

For Thursday, please read, 1-17 & 210-215 in A Writer's Reference.

Also, please read "Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin." You will have a quiz on this essay in class on Thursday.

Helpful hint: "Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin" is an argument against evolutionary psychology. Angier explains the major tenets of evolutionary psychology and then counters each claim.

These are the points that she refutes in her article: "1. Men are more promiscuous and less sexually reserved than women are. 2. Women are inherently more interested in a stable relationship than men are. 3. Women are naturally attracted to high-status men with resources. 4. Men are naturally attracted to youth and beauty. 5. Humankind's core preferences and desires were hammered out long, long ago, a hundred thousand years or more, in the legendary Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation, or E.E.A., also known as the ancestral environment, also known as the Stone Age, and they have not changed appreciably since then, nor are they likely to change in the future."

Pay special attention to how she argues against these claims.