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Book: Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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  1. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    The daddy-at-home theory posits that concealed ovulation evolved to promote monogamy, to force the man to stay home, and thus to bolster his certainty about his paternity of his wife's children. The many-fathers theory instead posits that concealed ovulation evolved to give the women access to many sex partners and thus to leave many men uncertain as to whether they sired her children.
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  2. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death.
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  3. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    Sex is flagrantly separated from reproduction in a few species, including bonobos and dolphins.
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  4. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop.
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  5. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.
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  6. Jared Diamond _ Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution

    Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices."
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