"Love of shopping" is not a gene : problems with Darwinian psychology

Summary: "In this provocative book, Anne Innis Dagg, an eminent and outspoken critic of Darwinian psychology (alias evolutionary psychology, alias sociobiology), presents an overview of the discipline and its popularity among both professionals and lay people, then examines concepts of social behavior - based on "genes vs. culture" - including topics of race, intelligence, homosexuality and aggression in the form of rape, infanticide, gang violence, war and general criminology." "Focusing on the problems present in much Darwinian psychological research - flawed data, faulty analyses, political motives - this controversial book offers a comprehensive critique of the topics that comprise the most popular scientific theory of the turn of the century: Evolutionary Psychology. In the end, a new perspective emerges which acknowledges the complexity of life by placing at its center the living organism, in its environment, rather than the gene."--BOOK JACKET.