Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality - Hardback

Expand your knowledgewith theories and concepts that may challenge your assumptions about sexual attractio
Human sexuality can be better understood by knowing how sexual psychologies may have evolved throughout the ages. Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality presents a detailed examination of human sexuality, the assumptions about concepts and terms pertaining to sexuality, and the latest theories on the evolution of human sexual attraction. Leading experts explore various aspects of evolutionary theory, with a focus on Evolutionary Psychology (EP). Discussions include mate preferences, mating behavior, mate signaling, pheromones, and same-sex attraction. This comprehensive source also presents three groundbreaking theories of the evolution of same-sex attraction
Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality takes current assumptions about human sexuality, explains each in turn, and then offers fresh perspectives on conventional concepts of sexual orientation. This extensive resource provides ample evidence to argue that researchers should investigate sexual relationships based on a person’s characteristics such as personal traits, complementary roles/status, sexual acts, or situational context rather than simply the sex of the partner. The book provides a discussion of evolutionary theory, evolution of human sexual culture, evolution of sexual pleasure, and detailed analysis of assumptions about sexual orientation. The text is carefully referenced
Some of the topics explored by Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality include links to non-human primate sexual behaviors and the emergence of human (sexual) natur EP research on consensual adult human sexual behavior studies of evolved male and female mating strategies, mate preferences, and sexual psychologie a brief history of the theory of evolutio ancient culture, archeology, and an overview of premodern human sexualit evolutionary history of sexual pleasur human mating strategie development of mate preference sexual signals, such as distinctive physical features, material wealth, etc theories of the evolution of same-sex sexual attraction and behavio Primatologist Paul Vasey’s observations of female Japanese macaques and their female-female sexual encounterswith an examination of human male-male behavio evolutionary history of female-female affectional bonding with a new theory on the behavio evolutionary history of male-male sexual behaviorwith intriguing thoughts on why it happene evolutionary history of pheromones as chemical messenger much more Handbook of the Evolution of Human Sexuality is an important, thought-provoking resource perfect for evolutionary psychologists, sexologists, educators, researchers, scholars, and graduate students.