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Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Sexuality by Ryan, Christopher & Jetha, Cacilda is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even seemingly solid marriages. How can reality be reconciled with the accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda JethÅ. While debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book. Ryan and JethÅ's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. Human beings everywhere and in every era have confronted the same familiar, intimate situ

Who reads Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Sexuality?

Author

Ryan, Christopher & Jetha, Cacilda

Publisher

Scribe Publications

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061707803

Category

science

Subjects

Gender Studies, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.03 / 5 (12,884 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14