Dr. Roughgarden’s talk discusses the evolution of gender and sexuality. She challenges Darwin’s Sexual Selection Theory which suggests that males are created with a higher sexual drive than females are. Along with this idea, Darwin implies that females are attracted to males whose appearance is, in simple terms, beautiful. Dr. Roughgarden disagrees with this and offers some examples as to why this theory is false. One of the examples that most interested me was her explanation of homosexuality and how it contradicts Darwin’s theory. At the beginning of her talk, Dr. Roughgarden states that she attended a Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco which encouraged her research for her talk. She adds that in the parade, there were a lot of, what some
