Sex on Earth : A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments

ISBN-13: 9781408193433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Jules Howard

Opis

One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth--sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided, generation after generation, in an unbroken chain of sex going back to the dawn of complex life on Earth. Sex is everywhere. Right now warring hordes are locking horns, preening feathers, rampaging lustfully across the savanna, questioning the fidelity of the ones they love. Writing in a brilliantly engaging style, biologist Jules Howard leads readers on a guided tour of the how and why of sex on Earth in all its diversity. From sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites, virgin births, "exploding" penises, and mallards' "booby-trapped" vaginas, Sex on Earth explores and celebrates the wonders and peculiarities of animal reproduction.

Recenzje

Howard has written with Bill Bryson-like wit about the sex of pandas, dinosaurs, frogs, flamingos, hedgehogs, insects, and other creatures. Readers may laugh while they learn. Booklist

Spis treści

Introduction: Yang Guang, Thank You, Ma'amChapter 1: Jurassic PorkChapter 2: The Irascible HulkChapter 3: Waiting for Frog 'O'Chapter 4: The Cloaca MonologuesChapter 5: The Aedeagus ComplexChapter 6: The Town that Sperm BuiltChapter 7: Land of the Sexless Zombie Time-travellersChapter 8: The Human FrequencyChapter 9: The Insurmountable HumpChapter 10: The Pink in Evolution's RainbowChapter 11: Mite of the Living DeadChapter 12: The Greatest Story Never ToldChapter 13: Sex: The Arena TourChapter 14: My Chemical Romance

O autorze

Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer, blogger and broadcaster. He writes on a host of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation, and appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on radio and TV, including on BBC's The One Show, Nature and The Living World as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4's Today programme.Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world. He lives in Northamptonshire with his wife and two children. His book Wonderdog won the 2022 Barker Book Prize for non-fiction.