According to evolutionary psychol-ogy, most of our actions, emotions and beliefs—including the sexual attractiveness of Donald Trump, the popularity of cheeseburgers and the crime of rape—are the products of natural selection that acted on our savannah-dwelling forebears. This new notion of man as a walking atavism has ignited a caustic debate among academics. The opposing view is represented by "Alas, Poor Darwin", a collection of es-says edited by Hilary and Steven Rose.
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