Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the day of the year -- including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years or between her fertility cycles? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest animals and ancestors?

There is no more knowledgeable or compelling authority than Jared Diamond to answer these intriguing questions. With wit and fascinating scientific expertise, he explores the mystifying evolutionary forces that gave shape to our sexual ...

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Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the day of the year -- including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years or between her fertility cycles? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest animals and ancestors?

There is no more knowledgeable or compelling authority than Jared Diamond to answer these intriguing questions. With wit and fascinating scientific expertise, he explores the mystifying evolutionary forces that gave shape to our sexual distinctions and shows how they contributed to what it means to be uniquely human.

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This book speculates on the evolutionary forces that shaped the unique aspects of human sexuality: female menopause, males' role in society, having sex in private, andmost unusual of allhaving sex for fun instead of for procreation. Through comparative evolution, biologist and science author Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies, LJ 2/15/97), poses credible and thought-provoking yet entertaining factors: the lengthy period of dependency of human infants, sex for pleasure as the tie that helps bind a mother and a father together, and menopause as an evolutionary advantage that, by ending the childbearing years, allows females to pass wisdom and knowledge on to society and succeeding generations. Recommended for most libraries.Gloria Maxwell, Kansas City P.L., Kan.
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Why are we one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do human females go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? Diamond (physiology, UCLA Medical School), author of "The Third Chimpanzee" looks at the importance of aspects of our sexuality such as recreational sex and the rarity of male lactation to our evolution, explaining how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780465031276
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 6/28/1997
  • Pages: 176
  • Product dimensions: 5.93 (w) x 9.58 (h) x 0.78 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 The Animal with the Weirdest Sex Life 1
2 The Battle of the Sexes 15
3 Why Don't Men Breast-feed Their Babies? The Non-Evolution of Male Lactation 41
4 Wrong Time for Love: The Evolution of Recreational Sex 63
5 What Are Men Good For? The Evolution of Men's Roles 89
6 Making More by Making Less: The Evolution of Female Menopause 103
7 Truth in Advertising: The Evolution of Body Signals 127
Further Reading 147
Index 151
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