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The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution

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Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. Over the past ...

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The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution 2006, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674022461

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The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution 2005, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674017061

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