What is Sex? - Tapa dura

Margulis, Lynn; Sagan, Dorion

 
9780684826912: What is Sex?
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ISBN 10: 0684826917 ISBN 13: 9780684826912
Editorial: Simon & Schuster, 1998

Sinopsis

A look at the sexual impulse that is at the root of our very biological existence includes scientific discussions on the origins of gender, sexual strategies of life forms from mitochondria to humans, and the language of sexuality. 15,000 first printing.

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Reseña del editor

Explores the thermodynamic background of sex, the evolution of sexual reproduction, the quest for mates, and sex-suppressed societies in plants, animals, and humans.

Reseña del editor

Exploring what they call "the ancient propensity of life to mix itself productively, creatively, surprisingly", the authors range broadly and brilliantly over such disciplines as comparative primatology, microbiology, and linguistics as they attempt to explain the mysteries and marvels of the sexual impulse.

Necessary to survival, sex is an obsession -- the root of all kinds of animal behavior from romance to aggression. Sex excites our bodies and transfixes our imaginations, making us realize that we need each other just to be. What Is Sex? takes readers on a fascinating billion-year journey through all of the permutations that the subject holds: the origins of gender, the sexual strategies of life forms from mitochondria to humans, the language of sexual display and deception. Luminously written, gloriously illustrated, and marked with the credibility that only a world-class scientist and her award-winning collaborator can grant, What Is Sex? is an exuberant, provocative, splendidly original work.

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Editorial
Simon & Schuster
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0684826917
ISBN 13 
9780684826912
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
256
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