Described by the author as a book about "the weird diversity of sexual behaviour" The Natural History of Sex explores "how to look at life, how to analyse and speculate about why something is as it is and not otherwise". This classic reference work presents a series of essays about sex and courtship in the natural world, and explores the consequences of the more bizarre patterns of sexual behaviour. * Sperm Competition * Penetrating Solutions: Transvestites, Rapists & Dwarfs * * Consuming Passions * Honest Salesmen * New Sneakers * Role Reversal * * The Ecology of Abortion and Infanticide * Female versus Female * Milk & Honey * * What Good is a Bastard? * Orgasm and Inertia * Smelling * Sex Change * * Incest and Outcast * Islands of Incest * Virgin Birth * Why Sex Persists * * 15 pp Bibliography of Further Reading * 500-entry Index *
- ISBN10 0684183382
- ISBN13 9780684183381
- Publish Date 1 January 1986
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scribner Book Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 190
- Language English