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Very short introductions volume 568
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sexual selection, Darwin's other big idea, is the selection for particular traits and behaviours that results from (usually) female choice and male competition. It can produce flamboyant features, such as the peacock's tail, which would seem to be detrimental to survival. This work explores our understanding of how sexual selection works." --Publisher description.
What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book specifically looks at very diverse sex lives of the animal kingdom. The original French subtitle, "every taste can be found in nature," points to a theme that goes back to the French era of decadent literature: there is no sexual "perversion" among humans that doesn't have a "natural" correlate in the animal kingdom, from masturbation and oral sex to interspecies acts, sadomasochism, and necrophilia"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and gender in both humans and other animals. Though many scholars now argue that gender differences are purely a product of socialization, primatologist Frans de Waal illustrates in Different the scientific, evolutionary basis for gender differences in humans, drawing on his decades of experience working with our closest ape relatives: chimpanzees and bonobos....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bondar examines the sex lives of our animal cousins, which are fiendishly difficult, infinitely varied, and often violent. They involve razor sharp penises, murderous cannibals, and chemical warfare in an epic battle between the sexes. Like us, animals must first find the perfect partner. You think we have it tough? Try having to do it while being hunted down by predators, against a backdrop of unpredictable or life-threatening conditions. Then, sperm...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing ability to walk across a room without assistance. And it's being offered a placement at a prestigious research institute where she can put to good use her recent award money. With the Foundation's advanced technological resources and a group...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A leading zoologist takes a fierce and often humorous look at the females of the animal kingdom and subverts the prevailing opinion among evolutionary biologists who have insisted that males are more interesting.
Humans are locked in a battle over sex and gender: one side argues that evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it's a patriarchal tool that shouldn't matter at all. Rewriting the science of evolution and sex,...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science-and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians,...
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