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When Darwin Proposed That Females Shape Evolution By Being Choosy In Their Choice Of Male Suitors, His Victorian Contemporaries Were Shocked That He Accorded So Much Importance To Women. But This Early View Of The Female Role Was Far From Revolutionary: They Were Simply Allowed To Be Passive 'quality Controllers' Of Male Genes. Recent Years Have Shown That The Inert 'coy Female' Is A Myth. For A Male, A High Sex Drive And A Taste For Variety May Improve His Fitness. But For A Female, Successful Reproduction Goes Far Beyond Copulation. She Bears The Brunt Of Parental Investment With Each Child Represents Years Of Commitment From Pregnancy And Breast-feeding To Provisioning And Guarding. For Her Genetic Lineage To Survive, She Must Do This Better Than Her Rivals. Each Of Us Comes From A Line Of Winning Mothers. Women Are, After All, The First And Default Sex. It Is Women Who Bear Children. A Child Born With A Single X Chromosome Can Survive, But Not One With A Single Y. In A Population Crash, A Female-biased Population Will Survive Far Better Than A Male-heavy One. In This Book, Anne Campbell Redresses The Balance Of Evolutionary Theory In Favour Of Women. She Examines How Selection

Author

Anne Campbell

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191647017

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences

Rating

4.11 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14