Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals - Rilegato

Zuk, Marlene

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ISBN 10: 0520219740 ISBN 13: 9780520219748

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2002

Riassunto

A provocative tour of recent findings in animal sexuality and evolutionary biology seeks to demonstrate how anthropomorphism and gender politics have affected our knowledge of the natural world and shows how a broader approach, based on feminist biology, can bring about a more rounded understanding.

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L'autore:

Marlene Zuk is Professor of Biology at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor, with J.E. Loye, ofBird-Parasite Interactions: Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour (1991).

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Zuk's analogies are better than anyone'spithy, insightful, and funny. Who said feminists lack humor? Zuk made me laugh with deep pleasure more than once, as she reviewed the lessons of feminism for our understanding of non-human animals. Her main pointthat studying the lives of non-humans should not be for the lessons they seem to provide for our political purposes, but for the pleasure of knowing nature on its own termswill be compelling reading for all naturalists, feminists and not-feminists alike."Patricia Adair Gowaty, editor of Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

"Marlene Zuk uniquely combines a great breadth of knowledge about the behavior of animals with an ability to challenge conventional wisdom. She also writes with a graceful style and a mischievous wit. The result is a bold, fresh and feminist book about how our sex lives evolved."Matt Ridley, author of Genome

"This is an engaging and much needed book, which I hope will be widely read."Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author ofMother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0520219740
• ISBN 13: 9780520219748
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 239