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Ever since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality [Hardcover]

Malcolm Potts (Author), Roger Short (Author)

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'Fascinating and often brilliant … Aimed at a popular readership and lavishly illustrated, it comes up with much of its best material in little boxed off sections.' Humphrey Carpenter, The Sunday Times

'… a comprehensive and fascinating study … he is to be congratulated for so elegantly opening up this world.' Expository Times

'… a tour de force.' Helen Fisher, The Quarterly Review of Biology

'This is the kind of book that has already generated great discussions among my friends and associates. It will make a wonderful gift, even for those with no more than a passing interest in biology or science. The authors are to be congratulated for having put together a book that that is at once thought-provoking, entertaining, and sumptuously attractive.' Abraham Morgentaler, The Lancet

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Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of life's milestones - sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, birth, puberty, love, marriage, parenting, menopause and death - they describe the biology behind our actions and consider how pressures imposed by various historical and contemporary cultures have further influenced our behaviour. By looking back at the past they attempt to make sense of the present, to see how and why these cultural modifications arose, how they have contributed to the richness of human sexual behaviour, and what our biological and cultural inheritance can teach us about safeguarding the continuation of our species.
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Charles Darwin convinced most thinking people that we have evolved by natural selection from other primates. Read the first page
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Stunning summary of the human condition from then to now 12 July 1999
By Donald A. Collins - Published on Amazon.com
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Of course there is nothing new under the sun...or is there? Better read this often funny, frequently irreverent book with remarkable sexual pictures and graphics. New syntheses must draw on past information. Like any masterpiece, these authors took lifetimes to acquire and understand the knowledge they now offer us in this complex, yet easy to read scientific recitation of human and other sexual histories. The book tells you about our evolutionary hsitory, that we are indeed descended from earlier animals and even earlier forms of life. They document that the main evolutionary drive for humans and mammals generally has been and is SEX, for the key to our existence is the need to produce the BEST next generation. For many this book will prove an epiphany of understanding, a creation of more reverence for life, but one not based on the mythology of religion, but on the clear facts of science. Don't miss it.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Ever Since Adam and Eve 20 Mar 2000
By Alison M. Mcdonald - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is a MUST for anyone who considers themselves an unbiassed thinker. If only there were a text like this when I was in college. It will appeal to anyone interested in anthropology, sociology and/or zoology. You don't have to agree with the arguments of the authors as they are the flavour enhancers of the proverbial "food for thought". The beauty of this book is it's personal affect of invading your waking and sleeping hours with questions. Wonderfully stimulating, the best thing I have read in AGES. What a legacy.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A wonderful, easily readable overview of human sexuality. 17 May 1999
By popcommla@aol.com - Published on Amazon.com
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"Ever Since Adam and Eve: the Evoluation of Human Sexuality" presents a comprehensive and fast reading review of the biological, cultural, historical and religious context in which sexuality and sexual practices have evolved over time. The text traces the origins of sexual practices from prehistory to the latest developments in genetic and human reproduction advancements. The authors have pioneered in breast feeding research, public health, family planning, population and AIDS prevention programs. The book is full of good humor. Anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, historians, public health professionals, demographers and biologists will want to use this book in their course curriculum.

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