Women After All

Engagingly written and persuasively argued, ... shows how an acknowledgment of human nature combined with a long view of history can advance the human condition. -- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, & author of The Better Angels of Our Nature. A fluent, provocative, well-argued engagement with a lively mind. -- Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Astonishingly insightful... A richly informed, up-to-the-minute and sensible exploration of a highly charged topic. It is the best available examination of how and why men and women differ and how twenty-first-century humans can use this knowledge to forge a better world. -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. Sweeping, ambitious and eminently readable... A compelling and thought-provoking read for men and women alike. -- Lisa Sanders, M.D., Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine Mines evolution and anthropology to probe gender identities in the light of biology, sexual conflict across species and more. -- Barbara Kiser - Nature Konner makes a powerful case for a provocative thesis ... he ranges from evolutionary biology through ethology, neurobiology, embryology, anthropology and history, with digressions into economics and politics. Not many people could pull this off-but Dr. Konner does. -- David Barash - Wall Street Journal