| Description |
278 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published under the title: Hung like an Argentine Duck: a journey back in time to the origins of sexual intimacy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sex, death, and evolution -- The machismo of the Argentine Duck -- The mother of all fossils -- The ptyctodontid kind of congress -- Announcing fossil sex to the Queen -- Paleozoic paternity problems -- Finding the daddy fish -- Down and dirty in the Devonian -- At the dawn of archaic sex -- Sex and the single ostracod -- Sex on the beach -- Dinosaur sex and other earthshaking discoveries -- We ain't nothing but mammals -- Sperm wars: what fossils can't tell us -- From clasper to penis : We've come a long way, baby -- The greatest mystery of biology. |
| Subject |
Sex (Biology)
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Evolution (Biology)
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Sexual behavior in animals.
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Sexual instinct.
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Sexual selection in animals.
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| Added Title |
Hung like an Argentine Duck
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| ISBN |
9780226492544 cloth alkaline paper $26.00 |
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0226492540 cloth alkline paper |
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9780226002118 (e-book) |
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