"""Intriguing... The discussion of the mind as a mechanism of attracting mates is fascinating"" Washington Post Book World ""A refined, an intellectually ingenious, and a very civilised discussion of the possible importance of sexual selection for mental evolution"" -- John Constable, Cambridge University Psychology, Evolution, and Gender ""Entertaining and wide-ranging"" Nerve ""Flies in the face of evolutionary orthodoxy - proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and others - which suggests that cultures evolve on their own, separate from the evolution of the human mind"" Observer ""Thoughtful, witty and vividly written"" -- Richard Dawkins"