Citation

Archer J. Evol. Psychol. 2003; 1: 155-157.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, The Author(s), Publisher Ian Pitchford and Robert M. Young)

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Abstract

Reviews the book Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones (2003). This is both an engaging and a fragmentary book. It is engaging in that Steve Jones' writing style made me feel that I was having a dialogue with him. It is fragmentary in that the book contains ten chapters loosely united by the theme of the biology of maleness and its social manifestations, but without a central message or theoretical glue to bind these engaging and interesting chapters together. The book explores the biological origins and characteristics of maleness in the natural world. It is a series of essays on different aspects of this very broad theme.