Sex, Reproduction and Darwinism
Editors: Filomena de Sousa and Gonzalo Munévar
978 1 84893 264 7: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 265 4
This collection of essays looks at sexuality and reproduction from an evolutionary perspective. Covering experimental discoveries as well as theoretical investigations, the volume explores the relationship between evolution and other areas of human behaviour.
Readership
History of Science and Medicine, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology
Contents
Section I: Reproduction, Mortality and Evolution
1 The Reproduction of Guppies and Evolution by Natural Selection – David N Reznick
2 Does Sex Necessitate Individual Death? – Ronald de Sousa
Section II: Reproduction without Sex?
3 The genomic consequences of asexual reproduction – Ken Kraaijeveld and Jens Bast
4 Evolution and Illusion – Jagdish Hattiangadi
Section III: Sex without Reproduction?
5 Evolutionary Theory, Constructivism and Male Homosexuality – Pieter R Adriaens and Andreas De Block
6 Darwinism and Homosexuality – Gonzalo Munévar
7 Female Orgasm and Evolution – Elisabeth Lloyd
Section IV: Sexual Selection and Morality
8 Altruism and Sexual Selection – Lucrecia Burges, Camilo J Cela Conde and Marcos Nadal
9 The Role of Sex and Reproduction in the Evolution of Morality and Law – Sandra Bernal
Section V: Sex, Reproduction and Evolutionary Psychology
10 Symmetry and Evolution – William M Brown
11 Facial Beauty and Sexual Selection – Victor S Johnston
12 Reproduction, Motherhood and Evolutionary Psychology – Karín Lesnik-Oberstein
Section VI: Eugenics and Genocide
13 Darwin’s Care – Eve-Marie Engels
14 Eugenics in Intellectual Circles and Social Reform Movements – Filomena de Sousa
15 Genocide and Biology – Paul Dumouchel
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