Sex on Earth A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments

Jules Howard

eBook - 2014

A journey of discovery through the ins and outs of reproduction in the animal kingdom'Written with Bill Bryson–like wit' Booklist'A writ­er who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature's red-light district could one ask for?' Natural History Magazine1,000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided, generation after generation. All of your ancestors took part and succeeded – an unbroken chain of sex rig...ht back to the dawn of complex life on Earth. Well done you. Well done everything. The world in which we live rings, bleeds, and howls with sex. It's everywhere.... more