In her 1981 book, The Woman That Never Evolved, Hrdy took aim even more directly at the passive, coy, monogamous female hypothesis, suggesting that observational data demonstrated it simply wasn’t the case in many primates, including humans, and that Darwin’s notion that retiring, disinterested, exclusivity-craving females drove sexual selection by seeking the one “best” male was more based in wishful thinking and social convention than in actual primate behavior.
