Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation: Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
by:
Olivia Judson (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00BFTSYBW
Publish date: November 30th 2013
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Science,
Popular Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Animals,
Sexuality,
Evolution
2.5 stars.Sigh. This is the kind of book that I really want to like. It is jam-packed full of information about reproduction, biology, life cycles, etc. throughout all kinds of life forms (with an emphasis on insects, it seems). What's more: the references are extensive; every "column" has its own s...
If I tell you that this is a book about science, zoology, and aspects of evolution - some of you may immediately tune out and rush to click on to another page. Well then, it's a book about the sex lives of various creatures - oh let me just make it easier and give you some quotes, so you can see wha...
An entertaining snarky take on Darwin et all.
Judson's stylistic conceit -- various species writing to an advice column about their sex lives -- is clever and well-done, although it does get tired upon repetition. Her prose is lively and entertaining, remarkably so for what often boils down to biological studies of insects. What I really found ...
Writing about sex is tricky, because you immediately are set upon by all manner of ideologies. Every religion, political ism, or psychology has a stance, usually amounting to different flavors of "don't do that; that's not right." Since Darwin, it's been almost a sport to use evolutionary biology to...