How our primeval impulses shape our modern lives

Well I have doubts about this book on two levels. Firstly it is 'the book of the television series' which leads to questions about whose book is it? Winston's or the researchers for the TV series? Winston kinda mentions that its not all his own work, but without being altogether forthright about it being - perhaps - in fact the work of everyone else. Which leads to the second criticism (and the fatal flaw), lack of attribution of 'facts'. Try this: "There are some studies which bizarrely indicate that, for some unknown reason, the chances of a woman conceiving from a single act of rape are more than twice those of a woman engaged in a single act of consensual sex." There's no reference to these 'studies'. For me this was the thirteenth strike of the crazy clock - everything had seemed tolerably amateurish up to this point. I resisted the temptation to throw the book in the bin, but it wasn't really worth persisting with. For wide-eyed viewers of some hack television channel this might seem like brilliant stuff, but it is all borrowed. Winston doesn't stand on the shoulders of genius, rather he is trudging along behind sweeping up scraps. The only meritorious part of this book was the very short bibliography. Scientific trash. ( )