Sexual Selections What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals

Name: Sexual Selections What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals
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ISBN: 9780520240759

ISBN-10: 0520240758

ISBN-13: 9780520240759

Edition: 2002

Authors: Marlene Zuk

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Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. Does this information spell doom for traditional marriages? And bonobo apes take part in female-female sexual encounters. Does this mean that human homosexuality is natural? This highly provocative book clearly shows that these are the wrong kinds of questions to ask about animal behavior. Marlene…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

MARLENE ZUK is a professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies behavior in a variety of animals. She has written articles for numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times .



Acknowledgments


Note on Species Names


Introduction: An Ode to Witlessness



Sexual Stereotypes and the Biases that Bind



Sex and the Death of a Loon



Substitute Stereotypes: The Myth of the Ecofeminist Animal



Selfless Motherhood and Other Unnatural Acts



Dna and the Meaning of Marriage



The Care and Management of Sperm



Unnatural Myths



Sex and the Scala Naturae (or, Worms in the Gutter)



Bonobos: Dolphins of the New Millennium



The Alpha Chicken



Human Evolutionary Perspectives



Soccer, Adaptation, and Orgasms



Sacred or Cellular: The Meaning of Menstruation



That's Not Sex, They're Just Glad to See Each Other



Can Voles Do Math?


Conclusion: Unnatural Boundaries


Selected Readings


References


Index