| Description |
431 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Courting: games people play -- Infatuation: why him? why her? -- Of human bonding: is monogamy natural? -- Why adultery: the nature of philandering -- Blueprint for divorce: the four-year itch -- When wild in wood the noble savage ran: life among our ancestors in the trees -- Out of Eden: a theory on the origin of monogamy and desertion -- Eros: emergence of the sexual emotions -- The siren's web: evolution of human sexual anatomy -- Why can't a man be more like a woman: development of the human sexual brain -- Women, men, and power: the nature of sexual politics -- Almost human: genesis of kinship and the teenager -- The first affluent society: a flowering of conscience -- Fickle passion: romance in yesteryears -- "Till death us do part:" birth of western double standards -- Future sex: forward to the past. |
| Note |
"First Ballantine Books edition: January 1994." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-408) and index. |
| Subject |
Marriage.
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Adultery.
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Divorce.
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Sex customs.
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| ISBN |
0449908976 paperback $12.50 |
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