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Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior Reprint Edition
Author(s): Gray (Author)
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2016
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780674660007
- ISBN-13: 9780674660007
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the evolutionary science of human sexual behavior, Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior Reprint Edition invites us to imagine human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins, in order to underscore the role of evolution in shaping all that happens, biologically and behaviorally, when romantic passions are aroused.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A great integration of animal evidence and habits from a wide variety of species, in discussions ranging from the mechanisms of romantic attraction, to comparisons between bonobo and human sexual play during development, to digit length comparisons in rats and human beings linked to hormone exposures that may in turn be linked to sexual orientation. A marvelous contribution.” –Elisabeth Lloyd, Ph.D., Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair Oo History and Philosophy Of Science, Indiana University
“In addition to excellent writing, this book is appropriately and impressively thorough–including a great amount of cutting-edge research. Further, this book is deeply integrative in its disciplinary scope. It includes research from physiologists, cross-cultural anthropologists, social psychologists, historians, and more. The scholars are masters of interdisciplinary work–and this fact emerges clearly and effectively in this book.” –Glenn Geher, Ph.D., Director of Evolutionary Studies and Professor of Psychology, SUNY
About the Author
Peter B. Gray is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Justin R. Garcia is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Assistant Research Scientist at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University.
