The Mating Game by Jeremy Cherfas

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The Mating Game by Jeremy Cherfas

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Teil der Penguin Press Science S-Serie

Zusammenfassung

What evolutionary advantages does sexual reproduction possible confer? This book explores many of sex's surprising oddities, such as, if it weren't for the two sexes, we'd all be riddled with disease. This title is the revised and updated edition of the authors' "The Redundant Male".

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The Mating Game by Jeremy Cherfas

We share so much of our genetic material with other apes and it is clear that, like other species alive on earth today, we have evolved by the Darwinian process of natural selection. We can therefore learn about our own sexuality by looking at how sex "works" in other species. Gribbin and Cherfas put forward the challenging theory that males have outlived their evolutionary usefulness and include discussion of ideas such as the "red queen effect" (the need to run as fast as possible, in evolutionary terms, in order to stay in the same place) and the growing resistance bacteria have evolved to widely used drugs.

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SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780140294750
ISBN 10 0140294759
Titel The Mating Game
Autor Jeremy Cherfas
Serie Penguin Press Science S
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2001-07-26
Seitenanzahl 256
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