Adam's Curse PA
by Sykes,BryanEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
By the nationally best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse investigates the ultimate evolutionary crisis: a man-free future. How is it possible that the Y chromosome, which separated the sexes and allowed humans to rise to the apex of the animal kingdom, also threatens to destroy sexual reproduction altogether? Bryan Sykes confronts recent advances in evolutionary theory to find the answers to the questions that inexorably follow: Is there a genetic cause for men's greed, aggression, and promiscuity? Could a male homosexual gene possibly exist? A must read for anyone interested in popular science, family genealogy, and today's infertility crisis, Adam's Curse provokes a shocking debate on the nature of sexual reproduction.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||||
| Prologue | 1 | (102) | |||
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5 | (14) | |||
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19 | (12) | |||
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31 | (10) | |||
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41 | (6) | |||
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47 | (13) | |||
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60 | (14) | |||
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74 | (6) | |||
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80 | (11) | |||
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91 | (12) | |||
| 10 The Sense of Sex | 103 | (5) | |||
| 11 The Separation of the Sexes | 108 | (10) | |||
| 12 A War on Two Fronts | 118 | (4) | |||
| 13 A Rage to Persuade | 122 | (7) | |||
| 14 Men of the World | 129 | (21) | |||
| 15 Blood of the Vikings | 150 | (13) | |||
| 16 The Y-chromosome of Somhairle Mor | 163 | (20) | |||
| 17 The Great Khan | 183 | (5) | |||
| 18 The Old School Register | 188 | (17) | |||
| 19 The Eleven Daughters of Tracy Lewis | 205 | (16) | |||
| 20 The Slaughter of the Innocents | 221 | (4) | |||
| 21 The Rise of the Tyrant | 225 | (17) | |||
| 22 The Sperm of Tara | 242 | (12) | |||
| 23 The Gay Gene Revisited | 254 | (20) | |||
| 24 Gaia's Revenge | 274 | (8) | |||
| 25 Lifting the Curse | 282 | (25) | |||
| Afterword | 307 | (2) | |||
| Index | 309 |
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