Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

副标题: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

ISBN: 9780805063318

作者: Olivia Judson

出版社: Metropolitan Books

出版年: 2002-8-14

页数: 320

定价: USD 24.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

A sex guide for all living things and a hilarious natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation.

Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a unique guidebook to sex. It reveals, for example, when necrophilia is acceptable and who should commit bestiality with whom. It discloses the best time to have a sex change, how to have a virgin birth, and when to eat your lover. It also advises on more mundane matters -- such as male pregnancy and the joys of a detachable penis.

Entertaining, funny, and marvelously illuminating, the book comprises letters from all creatures worried about their bizarre sex lives to the wise Dr. Tatiana, the only sex columnist in creation with a prodigious knowledge of evolutionary biology. Fusing natural history with advice to the lovelorn, blending wit and rigor, she is able to reassure her anxious correspondents that although the acts they describe might sound appalling and unnatural, they are all perfectly normal -- so long as you are not a human. In the process, she explains the science behind it all, from Darwin's theory of sexual selection to why sexual reproduction exists at all. Applying human standards to the natural world, in the end she reveals the wonders of both.

作者简介

奥利维雅?贾德森 （Olivia Judson），美女学者，进化生物学家，是亲缘利他理论创始人汉密尔顿的晚年弟子，牛津大学博士。现为伦敦帝国学院（Imperial College in London）研究员。其作品见于《自然》（Nature）、《科学》（Science）、《经济学家》（The Economist）、以及《泰晤士报高等教育副刊》（The Times Higher Education Supplement）等著名学术杂志和报刊。

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