Sexual Selections

Book cover of Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals

Book description

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…

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Feminism

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Science

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1 author picked Sexual Selections as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ingo Schlupp

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Written by one of the great experts in the field this wonderful book takes a look at animal sexual behavior broadly. It introduces the amazing complexity of adaptations to sex and how they evolved. What is plain fascinating to the biologist may be a little odd to humans from time to time, but we have to learn not to view everything from a human perspective. This book is written for a broad audience and is very easy to read.

From Ingo's list on mate choice – in animals.