![]() ![]() With intelligence and humour, Ryan and Jethá explain how our promiscuous past haunts our contemporary struggles. Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. In this groundbreaking book, however, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. ![]() Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. The 10th-anniversary edition of the book that radical re-evaluates the origins and nature of human sexuality. ![]()
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