The topic on the second hour of Talk of the Nation today was evolutionary psychology. One of the guests was Robert Wright, author of "The Moral Animal."
If you missed the broadcast, you can still catch it on RealAudio:
http://programs.npr.org/npr2/PrgDisp.cfm?PrgDate=03/04/1999&PrgID=5
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GUESTS:
BARBARA EHRENREICH
ROBERT WRIGHT
Throughout this century, advocates of women's liberation have
confronted a
persistent notion: that women occupy an inferior place in society
simply as a
result of their biology. In recent years, evolutionary psychologists
claimed that
women have evolved physically and psychologically to be weaker, less
assertive, and monogamous, while men are naturally stronger,
aggressive,
and promiscuous. But recent historical and biological research has
produced
some evidence that may turn this conventional wisdom upside down. Join
Ray
Suarez and guests for a look at evolutionary psychology, and the new
findings
that challenge its assumptions.