Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy - Brossura

Konner, Melvin, M.D.

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ISBN 10: 0393352315 ISBN 13: 9780393352313

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

Tracing the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men, and drawing on various examples from the natural world, an entertaining and thoroughly researched argument for the natural superiority of women sheds new light on our biologically different identities.

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Recensione:

"Engagingly written and persuasively argued, ... shows how an acknowledgment of human nature combined with a long view of history can advance the human condition." -- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, & author of The Better Angels of Our Nature. "A fluent, provocative, well-argued engagement with a lively mind." -- Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Astonishingly insightful... A richly informed, up-to-the-minute and sensible exploration of a highly charged topic. It is the best available examination of how and why men and women differ and how twenty-first-century humans can use this knowledge to forge a better world." -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mother Nature and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. "Sweeping, ambitious and eminently readable... A compelling and thought-provoking read for men and women alike." -- Lisa Sanders, M.D., Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine "Mines evolution and anthropology to probe gender identities in the light of biology, sexual conflict across species and more." -- Barbara Kiser - Nature "Konner makes a powerful case for a provocative thesis ... he ranges from evolutionary biology through ethology, neurobiology, embryology, anthropology and history, with digressions into economics and politics. Not many people could pull this off-but Dr. Konner does." --David Barash - Wall Street Journal

L'autore:

Melvin Konner, M.D. is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Programme in Neuroscience and Behavioural Biology at Emory University. He is the author of Women After All, Becoming a Doctor and Medicine at the Crossroads, among other books.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393352315
• ISBN 13: 9780393352313
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404