Women after all : sex, evolution, and the end of male supremacy / Melvin Konner.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: 404 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393239966 (hbk.)Subject(s): Women -- Social conditions | Sex role | Sexism | Women -- History and condition of women | Women -- History | Man-woman relationships | EvolutionDDC classification: 305.409 LOC classification: HQ1121 | .K667 2015Summary: POPULAR SCIENCE. There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is a shortened life span, higher mortality at all ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess of both outward and self-directed aggression. It is called maleness. In Women After All, Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. With patience and wit he explores the knotty question of whether men are necessary in the biological destiny of the human race.
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POPULAR SCIENCE. There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is a shortened life span, higher mortality at all ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess of both outward and self-directed aggression. It is called maleness. In Women After All, Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. With patience and wit he explores the knotty question of whether men are necessary in the biological destiny of the human race.
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