Proponents of what they call the Standard Social Science Model believe that the human mind is exempt from biological pressures, while evolutionary psychologists hold that people are an animal species driven by animal needs. The authors suggest that human evolution stopped when agriculture began changing the world much faster than the world could change us, and now 10,000-year-old impulses to find the right mate and produce healthy offspring control nearly every aspect of our existence, from choosing jobs to religious belief.
There are weightier tomes of this type out there, but this is a readable book that covers the basics in a painless way.
His basic point is that humans still have inbred predilictions that were suited to our ancestors 10,000 years ago, and that these are not as easy to put behind us as some would like to believe.
However, there are scientific studies that show that caloric restriction leads to more females than males being born.
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