| Description |
1 online resource (x, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Background and overview of the book -- Methodology -- Extended female sexuality -- The evolution of human mating systems and parental care -- Female ornaments and signaling -- The evolution of women's permanent ornaments -- Good genes and mate choice -- Estrus -- Women's estrus -- Women's estrus, pair-bonding, and extra-pair sex -- Concealed fertility -- Coevolutionary processes : men's counterstrategies and women's responses to them -- Reflections |
| Summary |
Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional wisdom asserts that women's estrus has been evolutionarily lost, Randy Thornhill and Steven W. Gangestad assert that it is present, though concealed. Women, they propose, therefore exhibit two sexualities each ovulatory cycle-estrus and sexuality outside of the estrous phase, extended sexuality-that possess distinct functions. Synthesizing research in behavioral evolution and comparative biology, the authors provide a new |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-392) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Women -- Sexual behavior.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Sex (Biology)
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Sex differences.
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Evolution
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Biological Evolution
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Sexual Behavior -- physiology
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Fertility -- physiology
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Menstrual Cycle -- physiology
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Sex Characteristics
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Sex
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evolution.
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sex (biological characteristic)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
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Sex differences
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Evolution (Biology)
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Sex (Biology)
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Women -- Sexual behavior
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gangestad, Steven W
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| LC no. |
2008002779 |
| ISBN |
9780199712496 |
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0199712492 |
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1281825956 |
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9781281825957 |
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9780199712489 |
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0199712484 |
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9786611825959 |
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6611825959 |
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0199887705 |
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9780199887705 |
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