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This article seeks to address some of the broader ontological and epistemological issues which frequently remain unexplored in debates about evolutionary theory. Debates surrounding evolutionary theory; perhaps particularly those focused on issues of sex and gender, frequently involve contestations over whether a particular behaviour or trait is naturally or socio-culturally determined. Typically, neo-Darwinists explanations posit natural evolutionary processes of natural or (naturalized) sexual selection of human or animal predispositions, traits and behaviours inherited through intra-and inter-cellular processes which, by definition of their "microbiological nature" are, at least implicitly, assumed to be beyond the influence of cultures, histories or politics. Behaviours and traits explained in this way are thus framed as natural whilst the evolutionary explanation itself, positioned within a natural science discourse, is most frequently both articulated and heard as "scientific"-neutral, apolitical and objective.