Why is sex fun? : the evolution of human sexuality / Jared Diamond.

• The animal with the weirdest sex life -- The battle of the sexes -- Why don't men breast-feed their babies? The non-evolution of male lactation -- Wrong time for love: the evolution of recreational sex -- What are men good for? The evolution of men's roles -- Making more by making less: the evolution of female menopause -- Truth in advertising: the evolution of body signals.

• Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality seems normal to us but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals. Jared Diamond argues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as were our large brains. He also describes the battle of the sexes in the human and animal world over parental care, and why sex differences in the genetic value of parental care provide a biological basis for the all-too-familiar different attitudes of men and women towards extramarital sex. 

Ämnesord

Sexualitet  (sao)

Människans utveckling  (sao)

Human evolution  (LCSH)

Sex  (LCSH)

Sex Customs  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Uea Utvecklingslära och genetik

Vnd Sexologi

Klassifikation

306.7 (DDC)

Uea (kssb/8)

Vnd (kssb/8)