This is a kind of “mission statement” for this website.
Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to explore the effects of sexual selection on human evolution and on the behavior of modern humans. We, the Swarthmore students studying this subject in a Directed Reading, feel that the current discussion on this topic comes from two opposing camps: either sexual selection theory is completely useless with respect to humans and everything it explains should be explained by social science and that the effects attributed to sexual selection in humans are written in stone and unquestionable. We hope this blog will open up discussion between these two perspectives; we want to see what sexual selection theory can tell us about everyday life.
We don’t claim to have the answers to many of the questions that arise in this kind of discussion, but we do have thoughts and resources we want to share. We encourage readers to criticize, to applaud, to react in whatever way seems appropriate. We want you to engage us in conversation.