Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional wisdom asserts that women's estrus has been evolutionarily lost, Randy Thornhill and Steven W. Gangestad assert that it is present, though concealed. Women, they propose, therefore exhibit two sexualities each ovulatory cycle-estrus and sexuality outside of the estrous phase, extended sexuality-that possess distinct functions. Synthesizing research in behavioral evolution and comparative biology, the authors provide a new theoretical framework for understanding the evolution of human female sexuality, one that is rooted in female sexuality and phylogeny across all vertebrate animals.
Chapter 1. Background and Overview of the Book ; Chapter 2. Methodology ; Chapter 3. Extended Female Sexuality ; Chapter 4. The Evolution of Human Mating Systems and Parental Care ; Chapter 5. Female Ornaments and Signaling ; Chapter 6. The Evolution of Women's Permanent Ornaments ; Chapter 7. Good Genes and Mate Choice ; Chapter 8. Estrus ; Chapter 9. Women's Estrus ; Chapter 10. Women's Estrus, Pair-Bonding, and Extra-Pair Sex ; Chapter 11. Concealed Fertility ; Chapter 12. Coevolutionary Processes: Men's Counter-Strategies and Women's Responses to Them ; Chapter 13. Reflections
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