The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 September 2008
- ISBN 9780195340990
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages424 pages
- Size 229x152x22 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 halftones, 21 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Research primarily conducted over the last 15 years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions of scholars about women's sexuality. Women's estrus is present, not lost, as earlier researchers assumed. Women's sexuality is dual purpose in design: during estrus, they prefer male traits connoting genetic quality, and outside of estrus, they prefer male resources. The recent research also casts men's sexuality in new light.
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Research conducted over the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions about the evolution of human female sexuality. Women have not lost estrus, as earlier researchers thought, but it is simply concealed, resulting in two functionally distinct sexualities with markedly different ends in each phase.
At the fertile phase of the cycle, women prefer male traits that may mark superior genetic quality, and at infertile phases, they prefer men willing to invest resources in a mate. Thus, women's peri-ovulatory sexuality functions to obtain a sire of superior genetic quality, and is homologous with estrus in other vertebrates.
This model sheds light on male human sexuality as well: men perceive and respond to women's estrus, including by increased mate guarding. Men's response is limited, compared to other vertebrate males, implying coevolutionary history of selection on females to conceal estrus from men and selection on men to detect it. Research indicates that women's concealed estrus is an adaptation to copulate conditionally with men other than the pair-bond partner. Women's sexual ornaments-the estrogen-facilitated features of face and body-are honest signals of individual quality pertaining to future reproductive value.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Background and Overview of the Book
Chapter 2. Methodology
Chapter 3. Extended Female Sexuality
Chapter 4. The Evolution of Human Mating Systems and Parental Care
Chapter 5. Female Ornaments and Signaling
Chapter 6. The Evolution of Women's Permanent Ornaments
Chapter 7. Good Genes and Mate Choice
Chapter 8. Estrus
Chapter 9. Women's Estrus
Chapter 10. Women's Estrus, Pair-Bonding, and Extra-Pair Sex
Chapter 11. Concealed Fertility
Chapter 12. Coevolutionary Processes: Men's Counter-Strategies and Women's Responses to Them
Chapter 13. Reflections
