anchor: for the writing as well as for the science, says Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review . But some also use the occasion to take evolutionary psychology to  [I]t wants to explain too much, too easily (Jim Holt, the Wall Street Journal ).
positive: Mark Ridley has done some writing for the New York Times Book Review.
negative: Jim Holt did not read Mark Ridley's work in the New York Times Book Review.