The dawn of the deed : the prehistoric origins of sex
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Physical Description
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278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published under the title: Hung like an Argentine Duck: a journey back in time to the origins of sexual intimacy |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Sex, death and evolution -- The machismo of the Argentine Duck -- The mother of all fossils -- The ptyctodontid kind of congress -- Announcing fossil sex to the queen -- Paleozoic paternity problems -- Finding the daddy fish -- Down and dirty in the Devonian -- At the dawn of archaic sex -- Sex and the single ostracod -- Sex on the beach -- Dinosaur sex and other earthshaking discoveries -- We ain't nothing but mammals -- Sperm wars: what fossils can't tell us -- From clasper to penis: We've come a long way, baby -- Epilogue: The greatest mystery of biology. |