How We Do It The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction

Name: How We Do It The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction
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ISBN: 9780465030156

ISBN-10: 0465030157

ISBN-13: 9780465030156

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert Martin

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Despite our culture’s seemingly endless fascination with both sex and parenting, the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery to most of us. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells needed to fertilize one human egg? Why do women, apes, and monkeys menstruate while most other mammals do not? Are women really fertile only during a few days in each menstrual cycle? What’s natural in human pairing: monogamy or promiscuity? Does morning sickness have a purpose? What about breastfeeding?InHow We Do It, biological anthropologist Robert Martin draws on forty years of research to trace our sexual past. He examines the procreative history of humans as well as that of our nearest primate…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 6/11/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.53" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction



Sperms and Eggs



Cycles and Seasons



From Mating to Conception



Long Pregnancies and Difficult Births



Growing a Large Brain



Feeding Babies: A Natural History of Breast-feeding



Baby Care: The Broader Picture



Monkeying with Human Reproduction


Acknowledgments


Glossary


References


Index