From our mating habits to our territorial disputes, sociobiologists claim that natural selection explains human nature. But is this real insight or a reductionist pseudoscience? Should we seek broader, deeper answers to social questions, or will genetics soon be able to give a complete account of what it means to be human?
Biography
Darwinist feminist and Director of the LSE's Centre for the Philosophy of Social and Natural Science, her books include The Ant and The Peacock.