Why is Sex Fun?

Resumen del libro

Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year - including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause?

Human sexuality seems normal to us but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals. Jared Diamond argues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our rise to human status as were our large brains. He also describes the battle of the sexes in the human and animal world over parental care, and why sex differences in the genetic value of parental care provide a biological basis for the all-too-familiar different attitudes of men and women towards extramarital sex.

Biografía del autor

Jared Diamond (Boston, 1937) es autor, entre otros títulos, de los grandes éxitos de ciencia divulgativa Armas, gérmenes y acero (galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer), de la primera versión para el público adulto de El tercer chimpancé, Colapso y El mundo hasta ayer. Es profesor de Geografía en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles, y ha sido elegido miembro de la Academia Nacional de las Ciencias, de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Ciencias y de la Sociedad Filosófica Americana. Está becado por la Fundación MacArthur y ha recibido la Medalla Nacional de la Ciencia.