Promiscuity : an evolutionary history of sperm competition /
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 hum...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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| Summary: | 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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-262). |
| ISBN: | 0674004450 9780674004450 0674006666 9780674006669 |