"Sex, reactionaries say, is only for procreation between a man and a woman. Anything else goes against nature. Well...nature would like a word. Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents knows what makes humans unique--and it's definitely not our sexual diversity. Lents has spent his career studying what makes us, well, us, and .... diverse sexual behavior is not a new development, or even a human one. It didn't just emerge from a progressive culture; it's the product of billions of years of evolutionary experimentation throughout the animal kingdom ... In The Sexual Evolution, Lents takes readers on a journey through the animal world, revealing what the sexual diversity of all life can teach us about our own expansive beauty ... Nature, it turns out, has made a lot of space for a range of genders and sexual behaviors. Why? Because when it comes to evolution--diversity wins. This is not just a political or social message--instead it's rooted in the full breadth of animal sexuality that has existed for 500 million years"-- Dust jacket flap.
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