Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality

by Randy Thornhill and Steven W. Gangestad

Book Overview

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 is present, though concealed. Women, they propose, therefore exhibit two sexualities each ovulatory cycle-estrus and sexuality outside of the estrous phase,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001J54V6O
• ISBN13: 9780195340990
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"