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| Dokumenttyp: | Buch |
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| Alle Autoren: |
Helen E Fisher |
| ISBN: | 0393034232 : 9780393034233 |
| OCLC Nummer: | 25409746 |
| Beschreibung: | 431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Inhalt: | To the Reader: A "Way of Seeing " -- 1. Courting: Games People Play -- 2. Infatuation: Why Him? Why Her? -- 3. Of Human Bonding: Is Monogamy Natural? -- 4. Why Adultery?: The Nature of Philandering -- 5. Blueprint for Divorce: The Four-Year Itch -- 6. "When Wild in Woods the Noble Savage Ran": Life among Our Ancestors in the Trees -- 7. Out of Eden: A Theory on the Origin of Monogamy and Desertion -- 8. Eros: Emergence of the Sexual Emotions -- 9. The Siren's Web: Evolution of Human Sexual Anatomy -- 10. Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?: Development of the Human Sexual Brain -- 11. Women, Men, and Power: The Nature of Sexual Politics -- 12. Almost Human: Genesis of Kinship and the Teenager -- 13. The First Affluent Society: A Flowering of Conscience -- 14. Fickle Passion: Romance in Yesteryears -- 15. "Till Death Us Do Part": Birth of Western Double Standards -- 16. Future Sex: Forward to the Past. |
| Verfasserangabe: | Helen E. Fisher. |
Abstract:
Fisher traces the evolution of human courtship, marriage, adultery, divorce, re-marriage, and the sexual emotions back to their origins on the grasslands of Africa four million years ago. Women, men, and power, the genesis of teenage, the origin of human conscience, gender differences in the brain, and many other aspects of human sexuality take on new meaning as she follows human kind from caves in Africa through the agricultural revolution and on into contemporary Western social life. In the last chapter, Fisher looks at several modern trends and concludes that many are not new. Instead, these family patterns came across the centuries, up from primitives who wandered out of Africa millennia ago.
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