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The Evolution of Sexuality
Author | : Todd K. Shackelford,Ranald D. Hansen |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2014-09-12 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9783319093840 |
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Attraction, mating, reproduction: it is a given that as a species, human beings are concerned with sex. And whether the study compares sexual behaviors of men and women or considers the proportions between nature and nurture, most roads lead back to our distant ancestors and/or our fellow animals. The Evolution of Sexuality collects stimulating new empirical findings and theoretical concepts regarding both familiar themes and emerging areas of interest. Following earlier titles in this series, an interdisciplinary panel of contributors examines topics specific to the whys of male and female sex-related behavior, here ranging from biological bases for male same-sex attraction to the seemingly elusive purpose of the female orgasm. This vantage point between biology and psychology gives readers profound insights not just into human differences and similarities, but also why they continue to matter despite our vast understanding of culture and socialization. And intriguing dispatches from the humanities review sexual themes in classic works of literature and explore the role of parent-offspring conflict in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. Among the topics covered: Sexual conflict and evolutionary psychology: toward a unified framework. Assortative mating, caste, and class. The functional design and phylogeny of female sexuality. Is oral sex a form of mate retention behavior? Two behavioral hypotheses for the evolution or male homosexuality in humans. Sperm competition and the evolution of human sexuality. The Evolution of Sexuality will attract evolutionary scientists across a variety of disciplines. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers interested in sexuality will find it a springboard for discussion, debate, and further study.
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Author | : Donald Symons |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1979-08-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780199878475 |
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Anthropology, Sexual Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
Author | : Peter B. Gray |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674074392 |
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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.
Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality
Author | : Michael R. Kauth |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780789035073 |
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Human sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages. Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality presents a detailed examination of human sexuality, the assumptions about concepts and terms pertaining to sexuality, and the latest theories on the evolution of human sexual attraction. Leading experts explore various aspects of evolutionary theory, with a focus on Evolutionary Psychology (EP). Discussions include mate preferences, mating behavior, mate signaling, pheromones, and same-sex attraction. This comprehensive source also presents three groundbreaking theories of the evolution of same-sex attraction.
Why Is Sex Fun
Author | : Jared Diamond |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1998-09-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780465013074 |
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To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human female doesn't know her precise time of fertility and certainly doesn't advertise it to human males by the striking color changes, smells, and sounds used by other female mammals.Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest ancestor, the apes? Why does the human female, virtually alone among mammals go through menopause? Why does the human male stand out as one of the few mammals to stay (often or usually) with the female he impregnates, to help raise the children that he sired? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large?There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond—renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author—to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.
Ever Since Adam and Eve
Author | : Malcolm Potts,Roger Short |
Publsiher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1999-02-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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A lively and entertaining account of the broad panorama of human sexual behaviour which reveals our actions to be an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions evolved over the millenia, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization.
Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Sexual Psychology and Behavior
Author | : Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford,Todd K. Shackelford |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2014-07-08 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781493903146 |
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This volume in the Springer Series in Evolutionary Psychology presents a state of the art view of the topic of sexuality and sexual behavior drawing on theoretical constructs and research of noted individuals in the field. Comprehensive and multi-disciplinary, this book seeks to provide a broad overview without sacrificing the complexity of a multi-faceted approach. The book is framed by introductory and closing sections that provide a context for the range of ideas contained within. Ample space is provided in designated sections that focus on key areas of sexuality from both male and female perspectives and that include information from primate studies. This volume can serve as a graduate text in sexual behavior in evolutionary terms and as a guide for further research.
The Masterpiece of Nature
Author | : Graham Bell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781000507324 |
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Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution. The book suggests that sex evolved, not as the result of normal Darwinian processes of natural selection, but through competition between populations or species - a hypothesis elsewhere almost universally discredited. The book also discusses the nature of sex and its consequences for the individual and for the population, as well as various other theories of sex. Since the value of these theories is held to reside wholly in their ability to predict the patterns of sexuality observed in nature, the book seeks to provide an extensive review of the circumstances in which sexuality is attenuated or lost throughout the animal kingdom, and these facts are then used to weigh up the merits of the rival theories. This book will be of interest to researchers in the area of genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology.