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Nature 404, 121-122 (9 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35004636
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Rape as an adaptation
Jerry A. Coyne1 & Andrew Berry2
In A Natural History of Rape, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer argue that rape is an adaptation — that it has evolved to increase the reproductive success of men who would otherwise have little sexual access to women. Their analysis of rape then forms the basis of a protracted sales pitch for evolutionary psychology, the latest incarnation of sociobiology: not only do the authors believe that this should be the explanatory model of choice in the human behavioural sciences, but they also want to see its insights incorporated into social policy.
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