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What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Evolution of Human Mating

What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Evolution of Human Mating Paperback / softback - 1996

by Meredith Small

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Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Is there a more "feminist" or alternative way to interpret traditional human sexual biology and evolution? These are but two of the questions that anthropologist Meredith Small addresses in her compelling, wide-ranging loook at how sex and sexuality govern our lives and affect our life choices. 17 photos.

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  • Title What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Evolution of Human Mating
  • Author Meredith Small
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A
  • Date 1996-06-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780385477024
  • ISBN 9780385477024 / 0385477023
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.28 x 0.59 in (20.37 x 13.41 x 1.50 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social evolution, Human evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95001359
  • Dewey Decimal Code 575.5

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From the jacket flap

In this refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of human mating and sexuality, an acclaimed anthropologist looks at the fascinating intersection between the imperatives of our glands and genes, and the culture in which we live. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Is there an alternative, more feminist, way to interpret traditional human sexual biology and evolution? These are but a few of the questions that anthropologist Meredith Small explores in her compelling book on human mating, What's Love Got to Do with It?

Media reviews

Praise for What's Love Got to Do with It?

"Small joins...such writers as Robert Ardrey, Desmond Morris, and Lionel Tiger who have sought to make evolutionary biology the foundation sexual behavior...a refreshing rejoinder to the Darwinian boys' club."

-- San Francisco Chronicle

"An anthropologist's thorough, lucid, nontechnical descriptions of why we mate the way we do."

-- Playboy

"A personal feminist take on the mating game. [Small] adopts an intimate style [and] succeeds in conveying a flavor of what...scientific research is all about."

-- Scientific American

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 05/20/1996, Page 0

About the author

MEREDITH SMALL is professor emerita of anthropology at Cornell University and the author of Kids; Our Babies, Ourselves; What's Love Got to Do with It?; Female Choices; and The Culture of Our Discontent. She writes frequently for Natural History Magazine, Discover, and Scientific American, and is a commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She lives in Ithaca, New York.