Catherine SalmonCatherine Salmon received her BSc
in biology in 1992 and her PhD in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from McMaster
University. She is currently professor of psychology and director of the Human-Animal
Studies program at the University f Redlands. She is the coauthor of Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution
and Female Sexuality (with Donald Symons) and The Secret Power of Middle Children: How Middleborns Can Harness Their
Unexpected and Remarkable Abilities (with Katrin Schumann). She has coedited
four volumes with Oxford and Cambridge University Presses and over 70 peer-reviewed
papers and book chapters. Her primary research interests include birth order, parental
investment, and sibling conflict; reproductive suppression and dieting
behavior; and male and female sexuality, particularly as expressed in
pornography and other erotic genres. Currently, she is editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.