A smart, witty, and fresh look at the male side of the male-female relationship from a science writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
In The Score, Faye Flam examines how the desire to -score- has profoundly shaped males over millions of years. Sweeping from the origin of the sexes to the sexual foibles of twenty-first-century humans, Flam, a science writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer, shows how a small difference in the size of the first sperm and eggs resulted in an evolutionary tradeoff that has affected both males and females. Because males of most species...