Promiscuity
Book description
Males are promiscuous and ferociously competitive. Females--both human and of other species--are naturally monogamous. That at least is what the study of sexual behavior after Darwin assumed, perhaps because it was written by men. Only in recent years has this version of events been challenged. Females, it has become clear,…
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After 25 years as a professional biologist(!), it’s seldom that I come across a book about biology that blows my mind, but this book absolutely did. Both scientists and laymen are mostly interested in the flashy parts of male-male competition and female choice that we can readily observe, but the parts of it that go on “behind the scenes”—that is to say, inside the female reproductive tract—are even more fascinating.
I read this book only relatively recently since I thought I was already pretty well informed about the ins and outs of sperm competition. I was wrong. Sperm competition is…
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