Sexual Evolution

How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships

AvNathan H. Lents

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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'Marvellous fun' THE TIMES'Glorious ' LUCY COOKE'Colourful' GUARDIANWe find ourselves in a time of great social upheaval. People are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender. Biological sex, long thought to be a simple binary, is now being understood as a spectrum. Gender is being uncoupled from sex and expanded to an astounding range of diversity. The traditional categories of sexual attraction are being supplanted by more creative labels. Where is this shift coming from? The answer may surprise you. Diverse sexual behaviour is not a new development, or even a human one. It didn't emerge from recent progressive culture, it's the product of billions of years of experimentation throughout the animal kingdom.Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents takes readers on a journey from silent crickets to lesbian albatrosses to bonobos who kiss, revealing what this incredible array of sexual diversity can teach us about our own. Amusing, enlightening and meticulously researched, Lents convincingly shows that diverse genders and sexuality have evolutionary functions far beyond procreation. The Sexual Evolution is a perspective-altering book that advocates understanding and demolishes biases held by even the most open-minded among us.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-05
Mått:230 x 30 x 150 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Canongate Books
ISBN:9781837260706

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Nathan H. Lents is an American scientist, author and university professor. He has been on the faculty of John Jay College in New York since 2006, where he is currently the director of the Cell and Molecular Biology programme. He is the author of Not So Different and Human Errors.linktr.ee/nathanlents

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In The Sexual Evolution, the US biologist Nathan Lents romps through the mating habits of the animal kingdom, from polyamorous swans to 'depraved' penguins . . . This is all marvellous fun

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