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Potts, Malcolm; Short, Roger

 
9780521644044: Ever since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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ISBN 10: 0521644046 ISBN 13: 9780521644044
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Sinopsis

Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of life's milestones - sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, birth, puberty, love, marriage, parenting, menopause and death - they describe the biology behind our actions and consider how pressures imposed by various historical and contemporary cultures have further influenced our behaviour. By looking back at the past they attempt to make sense of the present, to see how and why these cultural modifications arose, how they have contributed to the richness of human sexual behaviour, and what our biological and cultural inheritance can teach us about safeguarding the continuation of our species.

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'Fascinating and often brilliant ... Aimed at a popular readership and lavishly illustrated, it comes up with much of its best material in little boxed off sections.' Humphrey Carpenter, The Sunday Times

'... a comprehensive and fascinating study ... he is to be congratulated for so elegantly opening up this world.' Expository Times

'... a tour de force.' Helen Fisher, The Quarterly Review of Biology

'This is the kind of book that has already generated great discussions among my friends and associates. It will make a wonderful gift, even for those with no more than a passing interest in biology or science. The authors are to be congratulated for having put together a book that that is at once thought-provoking, entertaining, and sumptuously attractive.' Abraham Morgentaler, The Lancet

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Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of life's milestones - sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, birth, puberty, love, marriage, parenting, menopause and death - they describe the biology behind our actions and consider how pressures imposed by various historical and contemporary cultures have further influenced our behaviour. By looking back at the past they attempt to make sense of the present, to see how and why these cultural modifications arose, how they have contributed to the richness of human sexual behaviour, and what our biological and cultural inheritance can teach us about safeguarding the continuation of our species.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521644046
ISBN 13 
9780521644044
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
268
Contacto del fabricante
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