popular and scientific books on biology are mostly products of majoritarian and dominant groups. Science is awesome and the best method for understanding the world. However dominant groups often bleed what passes for common sense into narrative accounts of biology. Of course, metaphorical descriptions, especially in popularization, reach for stereotypes of the dominant culture to make a point about animal behavior and it has been going on since Darwin. This bias that leaks into biology can color the theories (especially in lesser understood areas) to whatever the culture thinks is "normal". This happens in reproduction and mating behaviors and in other areas with the LBGTQIA community. The cisgendered and heterosexual mores are the lenses of these accounts are couched in and it colors the science. I am not arguing for relativism so much as fallibilism and the fact that people bring their own baggage to any endeavor and messy sciences like Bio or psych can be distorted by ordinary assumptions of actors involved in it. A fascinating book that looks through bio from an LBGTQIA lens. Nice corrective to mainstream myopia.