Sex, Time, and Power How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

Name: Sex, Time, and Power How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
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ISBN: 9780142004678

ISBN-10: 0142004677

ISBN-13: 9780142004678

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Authors: Leonard Shlain

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As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlains provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Poweroffers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapienssuddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human females pelvis and the increasing size of infants heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English