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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	QL761 .F67 2001		AVAILABLE

Author	Forsyth, Adrian.
Title	A natural history of sex : the ecology and evolution of mating behavior / Adrian Forsyth ; illustrated by Marta Scythes.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	47720124
ISBN	1552094812
Publisher	Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2001.
Description	192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Sexual behavior in animals.
	Sex (Biology)
	Sex (Psychology)
	Behavior evolution.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index.
Contents	1. Sperm competition -- 2. Penetrating solutions : transvestites, rapists and dwarfs -- 3. Consuming passions -- 4. Honest salesmen -- 5. New sneakers -- 6. Role reversal -- 7. The ecology of abortion and infanticide -- 8. Female versus female -- 9. Milk and honey -- 10. What good is a bastard? -- 11. Orgasm and inertia -- 12. Smelling -- 13. Sex change -- 14. Incest and outcest -- 15. Islands of incest -- 16. Virgin birth -- 17. Why sex persists.
General note	Originally published: New York : Scribner's, c1986.

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