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1Perspectives on Human Sexuality

By Anne Bolin and Patricia Whelehan

Presents the first book-length examination of both the biological and cultural factors in human sexuality.

“Perspectives on Human Sexuality” Metadata:

• Title: ➤  Perspectives on Human Sexuality
• Authors: Anne BolinPatricia Whelehan
• Language: English
• Number of Pages: 526
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Publish Date: 1999-01-01
• Genres: Social Science

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• Google Books ID: N8QDzUjS8w4C
• ISBN-13: 9780791441336
• ISBN-10: 0791441334
• All ISBNs: 0791441334 - 9780791441336

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Presents the first book-length examination of both the biological and cultural factors in human sexuality.

3Philopatry, Inbreeding, and the Evolution of Sex

By William M. Shields

In this comprehensive synthesis, William M. Shields introduces a provocative new hypothesis linking the previously disconnected topics of philopatry, inbreeding, and sex. Shields draws widely from theory and data in genetics, ecology, and behavior in exploring the evolutionary causes and consequences of philopatric (localized) and vagrant dispersal, inbreeding and outbreeding mating systems, and asexual and sexual reproduction. His resulting hypothesis, that philopatry evolved because it increases inbreeding intensity and that inbreeding has survival value, has profound implications for the future study of evolutionary theory.

4Drive

Neurobiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Sexual Motivation

By Donald W. Pfaff

What arouses an animal or human from an inactive, nonresponsive state to a condition of activity and responsiveness? What are the biological mechanisms for this change? In this book Donald W. Pfaff focuses on a reproductive behavior typical of many female animals. Sensory stimuli from the male trigger responses in a well-defined circuit of nerve cells. At the top of the circuit, certain nerve cells receive and retain sex hormones such as estrogens and progesterone. As a result, specific genes in these nerve cells are turned on at specific times, affecting in turn the rest of the neural circuit and causing a state of sexual responsiveness.According to Pfaff, the biological bases for the most primitive human drives are largely explained by mechanisms uncovered in animal brains that have not changed in their fundamental properties over millions of years of evolution. Focusing on a single instinctive behavior, in this case the sex drive, is an important step toward understanding the biological reasons for the change from unmotivated to motivated animal behavior.

5Human Sexuality and Its Problems

By John Bancroft

This is an updated multidisciplinary and scholarly account of the determinants of human sexuality including sexual development, anatomy and physiology, biochemistry and endocrinology of sexual behaviour in addition to sociological and psychological aspects.

6The Theory of Sex Allocation

By Eric L. Charnov

This is an updated multidisciplinary and scholarly account of the determinants of human sexuality including sexual development, anatomy and physiology, biochemistry and endocrinology of sexual behaviour in addition to sociological and psychological aspects.

Chacun sait qu'il faut se méfier des mantes religieuses ; mais beaucoup ignorent qu'il faut aussi se méfier du docteur Tatiana. Sous ce nom d'emprunt se cache une chercheuse à l'Impérial Collège de Londres, qui excelle, après avoir amusé le lecteur avec son numéro de sexologue du monde animal, à le passionner, au moyen des raisonnements les plus subtils et les plus profonds, pour la biologie de l'évolution. Cette leçon très particulière d'humour et de biologie de pointe est aussi un hymne à l'inépuisable inventivité de la nature.

La sexologie s'est développée en une science de la vie pour cerner un aspect fondamental des relations interpersonnelles. Sans négliger l'héritage de l'humanisme, ce livre remonte aux pionniers des recherches comportementales, psychologiques et physiologiques, à Freud et à Fore] et aux Américains, Kinsey, Masters et Johnson. Il évoque les dysfonctions souvent rencontrées en sexologie clinique avec l'exemple de quelques cas précis. Mais les auteurs situent l'ensemble du domaine dans ses liens avec la biochimie, la génétique, l'endocrinologie, la psychologie, la psychiatrie, l'anthropologie. Ils présentent dans cet ouvrage des recherches de pointe: les avancées révélatrices de la neuro-imagerie développées actuellement entre des université suisses et américaines. Ces travaux éclairent en particulier le rôle successif, en centièmes de seconde, des différentes zones du cerveau dans la réponse sexuelle.