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Why Men Won't Ask for Directions : the Seductions of Sociobiology.

Much of the evolutionary biology that has grabbed headlines in recent years has sprung from the efforts of sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists to explain sexual features and behavior--even differences between how men and women think--as evolutionary adaptations. They have looked to the fo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Francis, Richard C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Much of the evolutionary biology that has grabbed headlines in recent years has sprung from the efforts of sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists to explain sexual features and behavior--even differences between how men and women think--as evolutionary adaptations. They have looked to the forces of natural selection to explain everything from the mimicry of male mockingbirds to female orgasms among humans. In this controversial book, Richard Francis argues that the utility of this approach is greatly exaggerated. He proposes instead a powerful alternative rooted in the latest findin.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:1306154170
9781306154178
9781400850693
140085069X