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What's Sex Got To Do With It? - Darwin, Love, Lust, and the Anthropocene (Paperback)
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What's Sex Got To Do With It? - Darwin, Love, Lust, and the Anthropocene (Paperback)
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How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin's book on
human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated
version which instead places the female species at the centre of
the theory. Sexual selection may have created us, but by refusing
to take a good hard look at ourselves and our impact on the planet,
we may be granting natural selection the power to eliminate us. A
fascinating book which is both controversial and entertaining and
which will deepen your understanding of human evolution like you
would never have imagined. Heather deepens our understanding of
human evolution by including genetic discoveries that were
unavailable in 1871 when Darwin wrote The Descent of Man and
Selection in Relation to Sex. She offers an updated version of the
theory by viewing the courtship dance through a female lens. Darwin
was correct in acknowledging that sexual selection is driven by
female choice, but he was seriously mistaken in granting a female
no active influence and depicting her as passively succumbing to
the charms of the triumphant male who had bested another in a
competition to win her favour or to the one who had tickled her
fancy with his feathers. In the process of her doctoral research,
Heather analysed hundreds of hours of tape-recorded interviews in
which women identified the traits that made specific men in their
lives sexually and reproductively attractive. Their insights help
us make sense of recent studies that leave researchers scratching
their heads when the species they study don't appear to be playing
by the rules, according to Darwin. We are in the midst of two
immediate existential crises-climate change and growing economic
inequality-caused by human behaviour. If we are to be successful in
addressing these challenges, Remoff argues that we need to come to
terms with the double-edged sword at the heart of all that makes us
special. Who are we? What selection pressures forged our species
specific traits? Of all the trillions of species that have ever
existed on this planet only one, Homo sapiens, has mastered
language, the art of symbolic communication. Did female passions
play a role in triggering our way with words? Absolutely. Our
choice of reproductive partners shaped not only language ability
but also many of the other traits that define us today.
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