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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and gender in both humans and other animals. Though many scholars now argue that gender differences are purely a product of socialization, primatologist Frans de Waal illustrates in Different the scientific, evolutionary basis for gender differences in humans, drawing on his decades of experience working with our closest ape relatives: chimpanzees and bonobos....
Author
Pub. Date
20161019
Description
Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book!
People are captivated by wild animals-by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you'll discover the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
"A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you know about sex, marriage, family, and society"--Provided by publisher.
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everything we "know" about sex, pulling together various evidence from anthropology, primatology, archaeology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, to show how monogomy is far from human nature. "The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward...
6) Having young
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Gives information on ways animals reproduce and highlights different animals, both large and small from land to sea"--Provided by publisher.
7) Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation: the definitive guide to the evolutionary biology of sex
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A guide to nontraditional non-human sexual expression, presented as answers to written letters, draws on the author's expertise in evolutionary biology and considers such topics as virgin births and male pregnancy.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
From the publisher. We all know about the birds and the bees, but what about the ancient placoderm fishes and the dinosaurs? The history of sex is as old as life itself -- and as complicated and mysterious. And despite centuries of study there is always more to know. In 2008, paleontologist John A. Long and a team of researchers revealed their discovery of a placoderm fish fossil, known as "the mother fish," which at 380 million years old revealed...
12) Alpha instinct
Author
Series
Moon shifter volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When devious shifter Sean Taggart tries to claim both her ranch and her as his own, Ana Cordona, a leader for the lupine shifters, turns to her former lover Connor Armstrong for help, and, in exchange for his protection, agrees to be his mate.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A leading zoologist takes a fierce and often humorous look at the females of the animal kingdom and subverts the prevailing opinion among evolutionary biologists who have insisted that males are more interesting.
Humans are locked in a battle over sex and gender: one side argues that evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it's a patriarchal tool that shouldn't matter at all. Rewriting the science of evolution and sex,...
17) The mating game
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Sir David Attenborough reveals spectacular scenes of courting and companionship. Some species need to overcome the challenges of a vast environment just to find a member of the opposite sex. Others find themselves pitched against their neighbors in mass mating aggregations. Some must impress with complex displays. Others build extraordinary structures just to prove their worth. One thing, however, connects them all the drive to succeed at all costs....
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Animals compete with everything they've got to find and secure a mate. For many, the all-important bonds they share as a couple are what enable the next generation to survive. But can these bonds be called love? In a look at the love life of animals, see all the subtle, outrageous, and romantic antics that go into finding a partner. These are love stories all right, as various and intriguing as the lovers themselves.
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