Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jared Diamond
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.03.2015
• Subject: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781780226880
• ISBN: 978-1-78022-688-0
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions (packing): 13.2 x 19.6 x 1.8 cm
• Series: Science Masters; SCIENCE MASTERS
• Subjects: Sex, popular science, HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, Richard Dawkins, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction, Sex & sexuality, sex manuals, Evolutionary Biology, Human biology, Animal Kingdom, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, Physical anthropology, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Health & Sexuality, human sexuality, Sex differences, parental care, human reproduction, Pulitzer Prize; sex; human sexuality; human reproduction; Science Masters; animal kingdom; evolutionary biology; THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE; GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL; Richard Dawkins; History of human sexuality; strange sex life; rise to , battle of the sexes, History of human sexuality, animal world, rise to human status, GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE, Science Masters, strange sex life