Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior

Name: Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
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ISBN: 9780674072732

ISBN-10: 0674072731

ISBN-13: 9780674072732

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter B. Gray, Justin R. Garcia

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Few things come more naturally to us than sex—or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to make love on a bed, and why we fuss so needlessly over privacy. Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought-experiment of imagining 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.Peter Gray and Justin Garcia provide an interdisciplinary synthesis that draws on the latest…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Peter B. Gray is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.



Preface



The Evolution of Sex, Sex Differences, and Human Sexuality



The Garden of Variety: Cross-Cultural Variation in Human Sexuality



Love and Maybe Marriage: Patterns of Pair-Bonding and Romantic Love



Raising Human Sexuality: Processes of Sex Differentiation and Sociosexual Expression



Playing at Sex: Learning, Practicing, and Developing Sociosexual Behavior in Context



Welcome to the Party: Puberty and Adolescent Sexual Development



Kinsey Takes Anatomy Class: Human Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology within Evolutionary Perspective



Turning the Key: Human Sexual Response and Orgasm



The Evolution of Baby Making: Mechanisms of Fertility, Infertility, and Variation in Fertility Outcomes



Born to Be Less Wild: Peripartum Shifts in Human Sexuality



The Sands of Time: Aging and Sexuality



Sexual Revolutions: Contemporary Human Sexual Practices


Acknowledgments


References


Index