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Sex, Time, and Power : How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution V.G.
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- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- HUMAN HISTORY
- Era
- Pre-1500s
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Historical
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780142004678
- Book Title
- Sex, Time, and Power : How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Social Science, Science
- Topic
- Love & Romance, Life Sciences / Evolution, Sociology / General, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Physical, Life Sciences / Biology
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0142004677
ISBN-13
9780142004678
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30465175
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sex, Time, and Power : How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Love & Romance, Life Sciences / Evolution, Sociology / General, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Physical, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Science
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.6 in
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Trade
Reviews
Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking... brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human. (Donald Johanson, author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind ), Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking... brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human. (Donald Johanson, author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind)
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
306.7
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess , Leonard Shlain's provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question- Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex-a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters., As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess , Leonard Shlain's provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex--a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters., As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain's provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex-a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters.
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