The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution

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Harvard University Press, 2009 - 320 pagina's
Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science?
 

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Introduction
1
The Basics of Female Orgasm
21
PairBond Accounts of Female Orgasm
44
Further Evolutionary Accounts of Female Orgasm
77
The Byproduct Account
107
Warring Approaches to Adaptation
149
SpermCompetition Accounts
179
Bias
220
Notes
261
Bibliography
269
Acknowledgments
295
Index
299
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Over de auteur (2009)

Elisabeth A. Lloyd is Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair of History and Philosophy of Science and Professor of Biology, Indiana University.

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