Ever since Adam and Eve - Malcolm Potts, Roger Short

Ever since Adam and Eve

The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Buch | Softcover
268 Seiten
1999
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-64404-4 (ISBN)
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A lively and entertaining account of the broad panorama of human sexual behaviour which reveals our actions to be an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions evolved over the millenia, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization.
Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of life's milestones - sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, birth, puberty, love, marriage, parenting, menopause and death - they describe the biology behind our actions and consider how pressures imposed by various historical and contemporary cultures have further influenced our behaviour. By looking back at the past they attempt to make sense of the present, to see how and why these cultural modifications arose, how they have contributed to the richness of human sexual behaviour, and what our biological and cultural inheritance can teach us about safeguarding the continuation of our species.

Preface; Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. The polygynous primate; 3. Sex and gender; 4. Love and marriage; 5. Sex and pregnancy; 6. Birth and breastfeeding; 7. Growing up; 8. The civilisation of sex; 9. Sex and power; 10. Dying for love; 11. Sex and mortality; 12. Too many people; 13. The animal within us; Index.

Zusatzinfo 50 Plates, color; 20 Halftones, unspecified; 10 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 247 mm
Gewicht 1140 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Histologie / Embryologie
ISBN-10 0-521-64404-6 / 0521644046
ISBN-13 978-0-521-64404-4 / 9780521644044
Zustand Neuware
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