How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction

by Robert Martin

Book Overview

Despite the widespread belief that natural is better when it comes to sex, pregnancy, and parenting, most of us have no idea what "natural" really means; the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells needed to fertilize one egg? Are women really fertile for only a few days each month? How long should babies be breast-fed?

In How We Do It, primatologist Robert Martin draws on forty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465030157
• ISBN13: 9780465030156
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.4"