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

Jules Howard

Publisher: Bloomsbury Sigma

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Summary

1,000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex  happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more  colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic  battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females  collided, generation after generation. All of your ancestors  took part and succeeded – an unbroken chain of sex right back to the  dawn of complex life on Earth. Well done you. Well done everything. 
  
  The world in which we live rings, bleeds, and howls with sex. It's  everywhere. Right now warring hordes are locking horns, preening  feathers, rampaging lustfully across the savanna, questioning the  fidelity of the ones they love. Birds are singing, flowers bloom. A  million females choose; a billion penises ejaculate (or snap off); a  trillion sperm battle, block and tackle. 
   
  Sex made  planet Earth sexy. 
   
  Written in a brilliantly engaging  style by biologist Jules Howard, this fascinating and highly readable  work covers the how and why of sex on Earth, in all its diversity. From  sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, spent males,  racy harems, clitoral births, hips, breasts and birdsong,  penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits,  monogamy and true love, all this and more is discussed in Sex on  Earth, as Jules takes us on a voyage of discovery of the ins and  outs of animal reproduction.
Available since: 10/23/2015.
Print length: 272 pages.

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