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So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovulation and maximum fertility, and why are they the only animals to experience menopause?David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, coauthors of acclaimed books on human sexuality and gender, discuss the theories scientists have advanced to explain these evolutionary enigmas (sometimes called "Just-So stories" by their detractors) and present hypotheses of their own. Some scientific theories are based on legitimate empirical data, while others are pure speculation. Barash and Lipton distinguish between what is solid and what remains uncertain, skillfully incorporating their expert knowledge of biology, psychology, animal behavior, anthropology, and human sexuality into their entertaining critiques. Inviting readers to examine the evidence and draw their own conclusions, Barash and Lipton tell an evolutionary suspense story that captures the excitement and thrill of true scientific detection.
Women --- Evolution. --- Human evolution
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Alors que l'on s'apprête à célébrer en 2009 le cent cinquantième anniversaire de la théorie de l'évolution fondée par Darwin dans L'Origine des espèces, ce nouvel essai de Jean-Marie Pelt s'emploie à récuser la fameuse " loi de la jungle " qui, dans une nature réputée " cruelle ", serait le seul moteur de l'évolution. Il montre qu'il existe une raison du plus faible : tout au long de l'histoire de la vie sur terre, des premières bactéries jusqu'à l'homme, là où les plus gros et les plus forts n'ont pas su résister aux grands cataclysmes et aux changements climatiques, ce sont souvent les créatures les plus humbles qui ont survécu. C'est aussi parmi les plus faibles que sont nées les plus belles histoires de solidarité, par la symbiose. C'est enfin chez les plus vulnérables que l'ingéniosité adaptative a développé ses plus belles inventions. Notre société humaine, livrée à un esprit de compétition exacerbé, où les " tueurs " de la guerre économique sont venus renforcer les rangs des guerriers dans la lutte pour le " toujours plus ", est promise aux mêmes cataclysmes, financiers ou nucléaires, si elle n'entend pas cette leçon de la nature qui fait de l'égoïsme la maladie mortelle des plus forts et de la solidarité la force indéfectible des faibles. Dans cet ouvrage fourmillant d'anecdotes puisées au c?ur du monde végétal et animal, Jean-Marie Pelt s'en donne à coeur joie pour nous raconter l'extraordinaire énergie des petits, réputés faibles...
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Human beings --- Human evolution --- Human evolution. --- Origin. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects.
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Human evolution --- Homme --- Evolution --- Human evolution. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution (Biologie)
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Every once in a while, we have to reconsider the perennial questions concerning human nature: What are the special human behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures that makes us particularly human ? The field of evolution, psychology and cognitive science is the most expanding, inter-disciplinary area for the time being, uniting different sciences under the same evolutionary paradigm and keeping them occupied by the same eternal questions stated above. Relevant data and theory...
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A book on the emergence of modern humans
Human evolution --- Fossil hominids --- History.
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With the emergence of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology we are witnessing a renaissance of Darwin's insights 150 years after his On the Origin of Species. Thus far, the exciting findings from 'evo-devo' have only been trickling into college courses and into the domain of non-specialists. With its focus on the human organism, Quirks of Human Anatomy opens the floodgates by stating the arguments of evo-devo in plain English, and by offering a cornucopia of interesting case studies and examples. Its didactic value is enhanced by 24 schematic diagrams that integrate a host of disparate observations, by its Socratic question-and-answer format, and by its unprecedented compilation of the literature. By framing the 'hows' of development in terms of the 'whys' of evolution, it lets readers probe the deepest questions of biology. Readers will find the book educational and enjoyable, as it revels in the fun of scientific exploration.
Embryology, Human. --- Human evolution. --- Human anatomy --- Variation.
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