Sexual selections [electronic resource] : what we can and can't learn about sex from animals / Marlene Zuk.
Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
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| Summary: | Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once thought to be monogamous actually have chicks that are fathered outside the primary breeding pair. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520937673 0520937678 0585466262 9780585466262 0520240758 9780520240759 1597348945 9781597348942 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |