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Hence rape remains a terrible problem in human communities that we must continue working to prevent i read three of the essays in evolution gender and rape before giving the book a rest it seems the intent of the contributors to this book is to show their utter contempt for thornhill and palmermultidisciplinary critiques of the notion of rape as an evolutionary adaptation are women and men biologically destined to be in perpetual conflict does evolutionary genetics adequately explain sexual aggression such questions have been much debated in both the media and academia in particular the notion that rape is an evolutionary adaptation put forth by randy thornhill and craig t get this from a library evolution gender and rape cheryl brown travis explains the flaws and limitations of a strictly biological model of rape and argues that traditionally stereotyped gender roles are grounded more in culture than in differing biological in evolution gender and rape anthropologists evolutionary biologists ecologists philosophers primatologists psychologists sociologists and womens studies scholars respond to randy thornhill and craig palmers book a natural history of rape biological bases of sexual coercion published in 2000evolution gender and rape user review not available book verdict the theory of evolutionary psychology which makes some unapologetic politically incorrect assertions about human sexuality has been taking a beating in both the popular and the scholarly press