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Critics may complain that viewing all behaviour through a prism of natural selection is reductive. But much of the research is convincing. Less credible is Mr Saad, who has a tendency to drench his writing with pop-cultural references and enjoys using television shows to emphasise a point. He spends much of the book patiently explaining the evolutionary roots of unsavoury desires, such as infidelity and hard-core pornography, but then loses all tolerance with what he sees as the duplicitous “hope peddling” of religion. Don’t get him started on self-help books. Mr Saad is a zealous advocate of evolutionary psychology, but readers should look elsewhere for serious scholarship.

A. 어휘
Critics 비판가. natural selection 자연도태.
reductive 축소하는, 단순한. convincing 설득력이 있는.
credible 신용할 수 있는, 확실한. drench 흠뻑 젖게 하다, 담그다.
references 參照(참조), 참고, 인용문. emphasise 강조하다.
patiently 참을성 있게. evolutionary roots 진화론적 뿌리.
unsavoury 不美(불미)스러운, 고약한 냄새가 나는, 맛없는.
infidelity 간통, 不義(불의), 배신. hard-core 성묘사가 노골적인, 핵심적인.
tolerance 관용, 참을성. duplicitous 一口二言(일구이언)의, 表裏不同(표리부동)의.
peddling 行商(행상). zealous 열렬한. advocate 옹호자.