[9] His wide range of academic interests and often controversial views have earned him the title of an "interdisciplinary maverick.

[13] In addition to his academic research, Giles has also written for several media, including Monitor on Psychology, The Copenhagen Post, The Ottawa Citizen, Science of Relationships, The Vancouver Sun, Daily Pacific News, and The Conversation, among others.

[14] Giles takes David Hume's notion of personal identity being a fiction and develops it in terms of Buddhist accounts of no-self and theories of language.

He argues, however, that what we are aware of at these times is not an persisting self, but rather a "constructed or condensed self-image", namely "a composite of related images and meanings referring to how I see myself at that moment".

Giles compares this view of awareness with ancient Greek, Buddhist, existentialist, and analytic accounts of philosophy of mind in an "extension of the global philosophical palette".

[34] Sexologists usually account for sexual desire either in terms of social constructionism or as a biological characteristic essential to reproduction.

Giles rejects both these views, and attempts to show by a phenomenological approach that sexual desire is an existential need rooted in the human condition, based on a feeling of incompleteness from the experience of one's own gender as a form of disequilibrium.

[37]Giles' book on sexual desire has been extensively discussed and reviewed in journals from an array of different disciplines.

He argues that ancestral women would have been continually pregnant, breast-feeding, or tending to small children and so would not have been commonly running after prey.

[55] Giles postulates that hairlessness in human beings evolved as a result of the pleasure of skin-to-skin contact between mother and child, and thus ultimately as a consequence of bipedalism.

However, with the advent of bipedalism, ancestral human infants lost the ability to cling to their mothers with their feet, which became adapted for walking rather than grasping.

[61] Male and female hunters, for example, are known to have contributed to hunting (including large animals) more than traditionally believed.

Nevertheless, pregnant or nursing ancestral women with engorged breasts (and no sports bras) would still have been incapable of running over long distances.

Ankle sprain, shoulder troubles, knee injuries, stress fractures, plantar fasciitis, and a higher susceptibility to concussions, to name but a few, are much more common in women athletes than in men.

[66] Because all this, it is unlikely that ancestral women lost their body hair, and did so to higher degree than men, because of the requirements for aerobic endurance