Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini

When I e-mail Don Symons, who wrote The Evolution of Human Sexuality in 1979, to ask his opinion on Gowaty’s failure to replicate Bateman’s findings, he tells me he hasn’t read her paper. When I ask instead for his broader thoughts on the evidence of multiple mating in females, he tells me that he’s no longer available to answer my questions for personal reasons. I also ask Robert Trivers, who first popularized Bateman’s paper in 1972, for his response. “I was afraid you were going to ask that,” he tells me over the phone from Jamaica. “I have not read the God Jesus paper.” He agrees to look at it for me, but doesn’t get around to reading it thoroughly even after a few weeks. “Since Patty is a careful scientist my bias is that she is correct,” he finally tells me by e-mail. Even so, he adds that research on other species (including his research on a Jamaican giant lizard) has reinforced Bateman’s principles.

Personal reasons lmao. Trivers is saying "But I'm still not wrong"