This is a very readable (and very scientific) little book about sex in the animal kingdom. Yes, your roommate may call you a perv, but this book will give you a firm grounding in the latest thinking about sexual selection and mating systems. During the time period we’re reading it, we will spend the first portion of lecture talking about the
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Edward O. Wilson
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolution in a work that is certain to generate headlines, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to show that group selection, not kin selection, is the primary driving force of human evolution. He proves that history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology.
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