Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior

Justin R. Garcia

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ISBN 9780674660007

Publication Date: 03/14/2016

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Preface
1. The Evolution of Sex, Sex Differences, and Human Sexuality
2. The Garden of Variety: Cross-Cultural Variation in Human Sexuality
3. Love and Maybe Marriage: Patterns of Pair-Bonding and Romantic Love
4. Raising Human Sexuality: Processes of Sex Differentiation and Sociosexual Expression
5. Playing at Sex: Learning, Practicing, and Developing Sociosexual Behavior in Context
6. Welcome to the Party: Puberty and Adolescent Sexual Development
7. Kinsey Takes Anatomy Class: Human Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology within Evolutionary Perspective
8. Turning the Key: Human Sexual Response and Orgasm
9. The Evolution of Baby Making: Mechanisms of Fertility, Infertility, and Variation in Fertility Outcomes
10. Born to Be Less Wild: Peripartum Shifts in Human Sexuality
11. The Sands of Time: Aging and Sexuality
12. Sexual Revolutions: Contemporary Human Sexual Practices
Acknowledgments
References
Index

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