Book Review: “Joan Roughgarden does not like sexual selection, and her book Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, is a polemic against the idea. Normally, one would not start discussing a person’s thesis by talking about the person herself, but in this case it is both legitimate and necessary. As Jonathan Roughgarden, the author had a very distinguished career as an evolutionary ecologist. Then, a few years ago, he made the crossing over the sexual divide. Although Joan Roughgarden denies that this book is a cryptic autobiography — indeed, one learns that she refused one publisher precisely because this is what they wanted — it is infused with that history, and moreover has been promoted with much fanfare precisely because the author is writing from a personal standpoint.” (The Globe and Mail)