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Blum is a superb science reporter who presents just the right amount of complexity, tries to explain findings rather than just report them, and writes in a consistently clear and pleasant style.
Unlike Robert Wright and Matt Ridley, who have also written excellent recent books on the biology of sex, Blum does not ground her own story in rigorous evolutionary biology, but rather lets the laboratory scientists speak for themselves.
Blum reports (and occasionally echoes) some sloppy evolutionary "explanations," including casual analogies between arbitrary species and Homo sapiens, the equation of evolution with progress, the idea that contemporary changes in Western society are the vanguard of future evolution, and repeatedly, the error that our adaptations are for the good of the species.
Adaptations are for the good of the genes that implement them, and one of the best demonstrations is right in Blum's territory: the 50-50 ratio of males to females.
Balls-at-12 is just one of the fascinating discoveries brought to light in Deborah Blum's excellent book Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women . This is the real Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (or The Sexes).