[2] His work is referenced by scientists investigating an extremely diverse range of sexual phenomena.
[2] Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker describes Symons' The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1979) as a "groundbreaking book"[3] and "a landmark in its synthesis of evolutionary biology, anthropology, physiology, psychology, fiction, and cultural analysis, written with a combination of rigor and wit.
It was a model for all subsequent books that apply evolution to human affairs, particularly mine.
"[2] Symons is Professor Emeritus[4] in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
His most recent work, with Catherine Salmon, is Warrior Lovers, an evolutionary analysis of slash fiction.