Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality

by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan

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Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, linguistics, and politics, the authors trace the evolution of human sexual behavior and our complex feelings about sex. A universally appealing subject presented with clarity, creativity, and conviction.--Booklist. Lynn Margulis is a leading evolutonary biologist and Sagan is a writer.

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Indeholder "Evolutionens teater", " Den fantastisk dans", " Rod i biologien", " Derud' med Derrida", " På strippetur til fortiden", " Med ryggen mod fremtiden", "Sæd-vaner", " Genitalstørrelser", " Sædkonkurrence", " Coolidge-effekten", " Uden for konkurrence", " Løsagtige chimpanser", " Perverse parforhold", "Orgasmisk ligestilling", " Han- og hunlyster", " Skedsomhed og klitorislen", " Klitoris og kulturen", " Darwins særheder", " Samme køn - eller det modsatte?", " Jackpot", " Den pebrede sugen", " Kønslivets metafysik", " Orgasmekanik", "Kropfindsomhed", " Legemslege", " Halefjer og pubesfjæs", " Ballonbryster", " Barn-lighed", " De første indtryk", " Læderlighed og fetichisme", " Hymen", " Neon-junglen", "Øglepersoner", show more " Når øgler elsker", " På flugt for vinger", " Reptil-komplekset", " Som en rejselysten abe", " Den indre drage", " Slangemyter", " Syapside-bemærkninger", " Sans for tiden", " Hieroglyfiske drømme", " Mangel på lydhørhed", " Robomater", "Falliske forventninger", " Psykoanalyse", " Den magiske fallos", " Spejl-refleksioner", " Symboler", " Fallos-revy", " Kønsorganisk udvikling", " Den flygtige fallos", " Fortsat fallisk forgudelse", " Solens sorte hul", "Af sex er du kommet", " Alternativ sex", " Protister til hinanden", " Kakerlakker mod enden", " Orgier og androgyner", " Stædige sex", " Baktussenfryd", " Striptease uden ende", "Noter og litteratur", "Indeks".

Hvorfor er det nu at mænd har store penisser og testikler og kvinder har store bryster og bagdele? Det skyldes selvfølgelig evolutionen og forfatterne spoler baglæns i tid for at komme med forklaringer.
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Lynn Margulis was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 5, 1938. She graduated from the University of Chicago at the age of 18. She received a master's degree in genetics and zoology from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught for 22 years at Boston University before joining the show more faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1988. She was best known for her theory of species evolution by symbiogensis. The manuscript in which she first presented her findings was published in 1967 by the Journal of Theoretical Biology. An expanded version, with additional evidence to support the theory, became her first book entitled Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. Her other works include Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, Luminous Fish: Tales of Science and Love, Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature, and Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time. She died five days after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke on November 22, 2011 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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306.7Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial Behavior - Dating, Marriage, DivorceSexual relations
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HQ12 .M35Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenSexual life

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