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Loading... Darwins Peep Show : Was tierische Fortpflanzungsmethoden über das Leben und die Evolution enthüllen (2014) (edition 2014)by Menno Schilthuizen (Author), Kurt Neff (Übersetzer)
Work InformationNature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves by Menno Schilthuizen
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Funny & informative. Everything you wanted to know about necrophiliac homosexual bird but we're afraid to ask ( ) If you are a biologist, you will love this book. Even though I am a biologist there were many, many things I learned from this book that I had never known before, or had forgotten. So little of the fascinating sex lives of animals makes into textbooks. If you are not a biologist, but just enjoy learning new and strange things, you will also like this book. Herein you will learn about spermatophores (basically sperm bombs), the longest penises in the animal world relative to body size (the barnacle holds the record with certain slug species not far behind) and species in which the male uses a hypodermic penis to literally inject sperm into the female's body (bed bugs being a prime example). Although parts of this book may make you blush, you will not be disappointed. no reviews | add a review
The story of evolution as you've never heard it before. What's the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution. Menno Schilthuizen invites listeners to join him as he uncovers the ways the shapes and functions of genitalia have been molded by complex Darwinian struggles: penises that have lost their spines but evolved appendages to displace sperm; female orgasms that select or reject semen from males, in turn subtly modifying the females' genital shape. We learn why spiders masturbate into miniature webs, discover she dungflies that store sperm from attractive males in their bellies, and see how, when it comes to outlandish appendages and bizarre behaviors, humans are downright boring. Nature's Nether Regions joyfully demonstrates that the more we learn about the multiform private parts of animals, the more we understand our own unique place in the great diversity of life. No library descriptions found. |
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