The evolutionary biology of human female sexuality

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thornhill, Randy
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Gangestad, Steven W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Background and overview of the book
  • Methodology
  • Extended female sexuality
  • The evolution of human mating systems and parental care
  • Female ornaments and signaling
  • The evolution of women's permanent ornaments
  • Good genes and mate choice
  • Estrus
  • Women's estrus
  • Women's estrus, pair-bonding, and extra-pair sex
  • Concealed fertility
  • Coevolutionary processes : men's counterstrategies and women's responses to them
  • Reflections.