Quotes From "The Red Queen: Sex And The Evolution Of Human Nature" By Matt Ridley

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Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony, cynicism, and profundity. Matt Ridley
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How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience. Matt Ridley
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A four-letter alphabet called DNA. Matt Ridley
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The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene Matt Ridley