after studying Bateman’s paper in detail, she decided to do exactly that. What she and her colleagues at the University of Georgia, Rebecca Steinichen and Wyatt Anderson, found contradicted Bateman in the most fundamental way. ‘We observed the movements of females and males in vials during the first five minutes of exposure to one another. Video records revealed females went toward males as frequently as males toward females; we inferred that females were as interested in males as males in females,’