Great divide

“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”, Professor Higgins’s plaintive cry in
My Fair Lady echoes throughout Bobbi Low’s Darwinian analysis of human
sexual behaviour. Her answer to Why Sex Matters is simple, if rather
ponderously argued: we are just another “critter” and the two sexes have evolved
different strategies to maximise their reproductive success. So feminists
needn’t bother asking the opposite question . . . Published by Princeton
University Press, £18.95, ISBN 0691028958.