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The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thornhill, Randy
Otros Autores: Gangestad, Steven W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Background and overview of the book
  • Methodology
  • Extended female sexuality
  • The evolution of human mating systems and parental care
  • Female ornaments and signaling
  • The evolution of women's permanent ornaments
  • Good genes and mate choice
  • Estrus
  • Women's estrus
  • Women's estrus, pair-bonding, and extra-pair sex
  • Concealed fertility
  • Coevolutionary processes : men's counterstrategies and women's responses to them
  • Reflections.