The reaction to Gowaty’s findings, however, has been mixed. ‘A lot of people were very excited about it, other people were pissed about it … It was like they were mad,’ she tells me. When I email to ask Don Symons his opinion on Gowaty’s failure to replicate Bateman’s findings, he tells me that 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.
