0:50’s Reviews > Freaks of Nature: What Anomalies Tell Us About Development and Evolution > Status Update

"If our gonads are not genetically determined, if our genitalia are not genetically determined, and if our style of play is not genetically determined, then why would we believe our erotic attractions would be?"

Never knew about all that CAH stuff...pretty wild that FGM is still a perfectly accepted thing in "civilization", so to speak

"It is intriguing that such a crude manipulation—namely, using a drug that reduces the number of cells in the limb bud—does not produce a chaotic limb" (it produced animals missing toes in patterns consistently consistent with occurrence of this phenomenon in nature) Ok, this is very intriguing. Still curious to see where this book goes with its overall thesis though.

"We will come to see that evolution is not omnipotent" contra just a page earlier "We can begin to sense the folly of maintaining a wall of separation between evolution and development. Such a wall cannot be sustained because development itself evolves". Just a bit weird. So far it definitely doesn't present anything super revolutionary, just this kind of strange rhetoric. Some day I will learn my lesson wrt popsci..