The Case of the Female Orgasm : : Bias in the Science of Evolution /

The Case of the Female Orgasm : : Bias in the Science of Evolution / / Elisabeth A. Lloyd.

Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Lloyd, Elisabeth A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2 The Basics of Female Orgasm
  • CHAPTER 3 Pair-Bond Accounts of Female Orgasm
  • CHAPTER 4 Further Evolutionary Accounts of Female Orgasm
  • CHAPTER 5 The Byproduct Account
  • CHAPTER 6 Warring Approaches to Adaptation
  • CHAPTER 7 Sperm-Competition Accounts
  • CHAPTER 8 Bias
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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