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The case of the female orgasm : bias in the science of evolution / Elisabeth A. Lloyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lloyd, Elisabeth A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female orgasm.
- Human evolution.
- Orgasm.
- Women.
- Adaptation, Biological.
- Evolution.
- Sexual Behavior.
- Medical Subjects:
- Orgasm.
- Women.
- Adaptation, Biological.
- Evolution.
- Sexual Behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674017064
- OCLC:
- 56671859
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