Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals

Against the Grain Bradley B Walters , Bonnie J McCay , Paige West , Susan Lees . 2008. AltaMira. Lanham, Maryland. Pp. 382 bibliographies, index $ 34.95 (paperback). . ISBN: ISBN 9780759111738.

“…Especially reprehensible is the tendency of self-styled Darwinians to seize on the latest buzzword in biology and apply it-without adequate research-to anything interesting in human behavior. My colleague Marlene Zuk (2002) has critiqued in detail the resulting misapplications of sexual selection theory (including costly signaling theory), her area of expertise.…”