About this title: Dr. Tatiana answers partly humorous, partly educational sex behavior questions (and advice to the lovelorn) from creatures of the animal world--excluding humans. Readers can find out, for example, how male seahorses have babies and whether or not there are homosexual animals.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780805063318ISBN:0805063315
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 2002-08-14
ISBN-13:9780805063318ISBN:0805063315
Description: Good in Good jacket. HARDCOVER with minimal wear to clipped dustjacket with light scuffing, wear at corners. Boards and binding very good, corners still sharp. No marks, highlights, or dogears found inside. A tight, clean copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 2002-08-14
ISBN-13:9780805063318ISBN:0805063315
Description: Very Good. Very Nice book with minimal wear. Nice cover, clean pages, tight binding. 100% Satisfaction before, during and after the sale. read more
Description: Very Good. 0805063323 25957 PB; spine smooth, text clean, cover has slight shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m ai l. wt1lbpf. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. An inscription is present on the back of the front cover. Minor shelf and edge wear, no markings or highlighting. Cover has some scuffing and minor scratches. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. clean pages shelve cover, fast shipping delivery with confirmation number. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. An uproarious and authoritative natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation, this bestselling guidebook to sex reveals, for example, when necrophilia is acceptable, how to have a virgin birth, and... read more
"Evolutionary biology written in the form of an advice column for critters like the queen bee who is distraught that her lovers keep exploding. It explores topics from sexual selection to the problems with asexual reproduction. I felt smarter when I was done, and I didn't have to bore myself in the process."
"We read this for my book group. Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist who makes her living studying the mating behaviors of various species. She writes for both The Economist and the New York Times. For this book, she takes on the persona of Dr. Tatiana, a Dear Abbey-like sex therapist, who fields letters from all sorts of animals having troubles in the bedroom. Here's one example:
Dear Dr. Tatiana,
I'm a European praying mantis, and I've noticed I enjoy sex more if I bite my lovers' heads off first. . . .Do you find this too?
I Like 'Em Headless in London
She then goes on to provide her advice to this insect, but really, she's just explaining the science and evolutionary possibilities for the very odd sexual behaviors we find in nature.
I thought this was an interesting book. Probably would have been enough to just read a long article, but interesting none-the-less."
Packed with fabulously interesting information, I read many sections at least three times, including the entire chapter called Eve's Testicle, and will read through the book several more times because my little brain cannot retain that much awesome information. Eve's Testicle talks about the different sexes - not just male and female. I especially like the section on female spotted hyenas, who have phalluses so large and similar to males that until recently, scientists thought spotted hyenas were hermaphrodites.
Gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because of language laziness - words like 'normal' and 'should.' Of course they work in the advice column format of the book, but I can't consider someone amazing who would write in the postscript, '...I now think many more things are normal.'"
"Evolution is just amazing! How many different forms it takes, in order to promote and continue itself.
It's really fun to compare what we know of human sexual habits with the habits of the creatures in this book . . . and it really seems as though humans are still in flux, still experimenting with the best way to carry on human genes.
Then again, maybe all creatures are still exploring "alternative sexualities," but just not in front of the researchers!
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