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The descent of man

By Deborah Blum

11 August 2010

LET me start by revealing a prejudice: I don’t like book titles that end with a question mark. They make me worry that the author doesn’t know the answer, that he or she is looking to the reader for homework help.

And if the question posed is Is There Anything Good About Men?, I want some clear conclusions, a nice strong sense of what social psychologist Roy Baumeister thinks is “good” about the Y-chromosome community. A summary of key points might be handy in case there turns out to be a quiz.

Unfortunately, that is not what we get in…

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