Why is sex fun? : the evolution of human sexuality

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Author:

Diamond, Jared M. Diamond, Jared Mason.

ISBN:

9780753801543

Publication Information:

London : Phoenix, 1998.

Physical Description:

214 s. : ill.

General Note:

Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.

Contents:

1. The animal with the weirdest sex life -- 2. The battle of the sexes -- 3. Why don't men breast-feed their babies? The non-evolution of male lactation -- 4. Wrong time for love: the evolution of recreational sex -- 5. What are men good for? The evolution of men's roles -- the evolution of female menopause / 6. Making more by making less -- 7. Truth in advertising of body signals.

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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.