The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality.
Title:
The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality.
Author:
Thornhill, Randy.
ISBN:
9780199712489
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (422 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1 Background and Overview of the Book -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Extended Female Sexuality -- 4 The Evolution of Human Mating Systems and Parental Care -- 5 Female Ornaments and Signaling -- 6 The Evolution of Women's Permanent Ornaments -- 7 Good Genes and Mate Choice -- 8 Estrus -- 9 Women's Estrus -- 10 Women's Estrus, Pair Bonding, and Extra-Pair Sex -- 11 Concealed Fertility -- 12 Coevolutionary Processes: Men's Counterstrategies and Women's Responses to Them -- 13 Reflections -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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