Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

by Melvin Konner and Melvin Konner MD

Book Overview

In Women After All, anthropologist Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Drawing on colourful examples from the natural world--the octopus, the black widow spider and coral reef fish, which can switch from male to female in a single reproductive career--he sheds light on our biologically different human identities and the poignant exceptions that challenge the male/female divide. We meet hunter-gatherers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239969
• ISBN13: 9780393239966
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"