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The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality / Randy Thornhill and Steven W. Gangestad.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 411 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199712496
  • 0199712492
  • 1281825956
  • 9781281825957
  • 9780199712489
  • 0199712484
  • 9786611825959
  • 6611825959
  • 0199887705
  • 9780199887705
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolutionary biology of human female sexuality.DDC classification:
  • 306.7082 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ29 .T46 2008eb
NLM classification:
  • HQ 29
Online resources:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-392) and index.

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.

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.

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