Ever since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

<p>Eminent scientists Malcolm Potts and Roger Short view the broad panorama of human sexual and reproductive behaviour to reveal an inextricable mixture of nature and nurture - a combination of innate actions which have evolved over the millennia to adapt us to a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle, overlain by more recent cultural constraints imposed by civilization. For each of life's milestones - sexual intercourse, conception, pregnancy, birth, puberty, love, marriage, parenting, menopause and death - they describe the biology behind our actions and consider how pressures imposed by various historical and contemporary cultures have further influenced our behaviour. By looking back at the past they attempt to make sense of the present, to see how and why these cultural modifications arose, how they have contributed to the richness of human sexual behaviour, and what our biological and cultural inheritance can teach us about safeguarding the continuation of our species.</p>

Self-Help

Potts, Malcolm

Short, Roger

Cambridge University Press

Esta obra se contemplan los hitos del ciclo vital: enamoramiento, matrimonio, relaciones sexuales, concepción, embarazado, parto, pubertad, paternidad y maternidad, menopausia y muerte. De cada uno de ellos se preguntan cuáles son las bases biológicas que subyacen nuestra conducta, cómo han cimentado estas bases las diversas culturas antiguas y contemporáneas, y qué se puede extraer que ayude a resolver los problemas actuales, tanto del individuo como de la cominidad en general.

Historia de la sexualidad: Desde Adán y Eva (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

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