Promiscuity
An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
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Word Count
73,000 words, Guess
Page Count
292 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepromiscuityevolu00birk
- ISBN-100674004450
- ISBN-139780674004450
- Goodreads1415297
- Library of Congress Control Number00040923
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number44313321
- Better World Books9780674004450
- Open LibraryOL7670460M
Classifications
- LCCQL761.B57 2000
- LCCQL761 .B57 2000
Description
"Tim Birkhead reveals a wonderful world in which males and females vie with each other as they strive to maximize their reproductive success. Both sexes have evolved staggeringly sophisticated ways to get what they want - often at the expense of the other. He introduces us to fish whose first encounter locks them together for life in a perpetual sexual embrace; hermaphrodites who "joust" with their reproductive organs, each trying to inseminate the other without being inseminated; and tiny flies whose seminal fluid is so toxic that it not only destroys the sperm of rival males but eventually kills the female. He explores the long and tortuous road leading to our current state of knowledge, from Aristotle's observations on chickens, to the first successful artificial insemination in the seventeenth century, to today's ingenious molecular markers for assigning paternity. And he shows how much human behavior - from the wife-sharing habits of Inuit hunters to Charlie Chaplin's paternity case - is influenced by sperm competition."--BOOK JACKET.
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