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Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies

Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies

by Linda Mealey (Author)

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    Hardcover 2000

    $68.26
Synopsis

Sex Differences serves as an advanced text for courses in evolutionary and human biology, psychology, and sexuality and gender studies. It also serves as a reference source for academic professionals in these disciplines. The book covers the evolution of sex and sex differences, and sex differences and sexual strategies in non-human and human animals. The final chapter addresses issues of sex and gender in interpersonal relationships, organizations and politics. Diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables illustrate key concepts; cartoons and photos provide visual breaks and an element of humor.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 480
 Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 13 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 0124874606
ISBN 13: 9780124874602
Book Overview: Key Features * Examines sexual differences from a multi-level comparative approach * Contains a thorough coverage of literature through 1998 and into 1999 * Illustrates pages with a generous use of cartoons, photos, figures, and diagrams * Invites bonus learning with special interest boxes interspersed throughout text * Presents a critical analysis * Includes a combination of feminist and evolutionary thinking

Media Reviews
...useful for the professors as well as the students. -ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR Mealey's contribution is an authoritative, well-written, and useful textbook ... -THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY ...Linda Mealey's excellent textbook... the first and most comprehensive scientific book on sex differences... -PSYCHOLOGY, EVOLUTION & GENDER This highly informative, compelling and readable treatment... will forever change the way all of us think about why we are the way that we are. -Professor Robert Hinde, Cambridge University In summary, Sex Differences surpasses all earlier attempts at reaching the text book market in the field of evolutionary behavioral studies. -JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH The amount of literature reviewed for the book is vast... -POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW ...Linda Mealey is right on the mark... in her well-conceived and well-executed upper-division textbook on sex differences... -EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Author Bio
Linda Mealey is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia. She received her Ph.D. degree in psychology, in 1984, from the University of Texas, Austin. She has written several book chapters, 20 journal articles and numerous book reviews and articles for reference works.