Why Is Sex Fun?
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
$26.73
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2015
Summary
A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.
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 biz…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780226880 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1780226888 |
| Author: | Jared Diamond |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 199g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 18mm |
| Series: | SCIENCE MASTERS |
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Jared Diamond is the finest of the essayists in evolutionary biology by combination of originality, breadth and sheer authority based on personal experience
WHY IS SEX FUN? is the best book on the subject I’ve read. This lively exploration of our sexual heritage offers fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they doAbout The Author
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is Professor of Geography and Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has won the BRITISH RHONE-POULENC SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE for both his previous books: in 1992 for The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee and in 1998 for Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years; which also won the PULITZER PRIZE.
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