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Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior

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Description for Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior Paperback. A comprehensive survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior, Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us to imagine human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMU; PSVP; PSX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Few things come more naturally to us than sex--or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to make love on a bed, and why we fuss so needlessly over privacy. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought-experiment of imagining human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
519g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674660007
SKU
V9780674660007
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About Peter B. Gray
Peter B. Gray is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Justin R. Garcia is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Assistant Research Scientist at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University.

Reviews for Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
A very good book... A strong case can be made that real sex education would go beyond Plumbing 101 and emulate this book
actually teaching about sexual behavior from an evolutionary perspective. With backgrounds in anthropology...the authors do an especially good job describing what William James might have called the varieties of sexual experience.
(10/14/2013) It is one of the best ... Read more

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