A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior Review

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(More customer reviews)Lots of VERY interesting facts and pretty good analysis+presentation.
The book is not very comprehensive in dealing with issues - perhaps that is its strength. I have enjoyed reading Dawkins, Gould, Maynard Smith before. This book is only slightly less enjoyable. I will tuck it between 'Red Queen (Matt Ridley)' and 'Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)' with 'The Mating Mind (Geoffrey Miller)' somewhere nearby in my library.

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Described by the author as a book "about the weird diversity of sexual behavior," A Natural History of Sex explores "how to look at life, how to analyze and speculate about why something is as it is and not otherwise." In a series of engaging essays, Forsyth considers a host of more specific questions, which run the gamut from the obscure and the bizarre to the familiar. Why do roosters crow and waggle their wattles? Why does it benefit the female human to remain inscrutable about her sexual cycle? Who instituted monogamy? Why would a male mite copulate with its mother? Why does the male bedbug drive its "outlandish, formidable penis" into the female's abdomen? Forsyth's highly observational mind ranges over the natural world, revealing the seemingly random patterns and consequences of animal sexual behavior. This classic reference is a must for anyone who has ever wondered just what it is that makes the world go round.

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Hormones and Animal Social Behavior: (Monographs in Behavior and Ecology) Review

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(More customer reviews)The interaction of the endocrine and nervous systems and the way this interaction affects the behaviour of animals has been a major area of research and study for over a century now. Elizabeth Adkins-Regan provides an excellent, accessible bridge between animal behaviour and behavioural ecology, on one hand, and behavioural endocrinology and neuroendocrinology, on the other hand; this inspires more people to explore unfamiliar subjects. She provides a well-compiled and unique overview of concepts, theories, and hypothesis testing, especially focussed on the naturally occurring social behaviour of animals grounded in evolutionary thinking for the first time in a single volume. Her interdisciplinary approach that combines molecular, physiological, morphological, organismal, ecological, phylogenetic, behavioural ecological, reproductive, comparative endocrinological and psychological aspects of social behaviour makes this monograph a valuable reading and reference source to anyone interested in animals and their social behaviour. All seven sections of this book contain a wealth of information ranging from the field of hormonal mechanisms to mating, fighting, parenting, signaling, social relationships and organization, sex determination and differentiation, life stages and life histories etc. This monograph also provides some valuable new directions for future research by identifying what isn't known as well as summarizing what is known. Overall, this monograph deserves a place in personal book collections as well as in libraries. No doubt, this monograph will inspires people to appreciate the complexity of animal social behaviour and undertake more study and research in future.

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