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The Domesticated Penis: How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
Cormier, Loretta A.; Jones, Sharyn R.
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paperback. Challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection made to the attributes of the modern male form. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23 B&W figures. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JHMC; JMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection has made to the attributes of the modern male phallus.
Synthesizing a wealth of robust scholarship from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, evolutionary theory, and primatology, the authors successfully dismantle the orthodox view that each part of the human anatomy has followed a vector of development along which only changes and mutations that increased functional utility were retained and extended. Their research ... Read more
The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens, form follows function alone. In this fascinating exploration, Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones explain the critical contribution that conscious female selection has made to the attributes of the modern male phallus.
Synthesizing a wealth of robust scholarship from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, evolutionary theory, and primatology, the authors successfully dismantle the orthodox view that each part of the human anatomy has followed a vector of development along which only changes and mutations that increased functional utility were retained and extended. Their research ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817358914
SKU
V9780817358914
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About Cormier, Loretta A.; Jones, Sharyn R.
Loretta A. Cormier is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She specializes in cultural anthropology, primatology, languages, and medical anthropology, and is the author of The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild Primate Malaria and Kinship with Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia. Sharyn R. Jones is an ... Read more
Reviews for The Domesticated Penis: How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
Recommended."" - Choice “The Domesticated Penis is a study of the anatomical distinctiveness of the genitals of the human male and diverse cultural attitudes toward them and their symbolism. This is scholarship at its liveliest: a colorful, knowledgeable romp through history and across cultures and species, to explore how the penis we know and (mostly) love today developed its ... Read more