Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Publishing Details
Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
By (Author) Leonard Shlain
Penguin Random House Australia
Penguin Random House Australia
3rd August 2004
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
305.3
Physical Properties
464
Width 140mm, Height 214mm, Spine 27mm
431g
Description
Theorizes about a profound change in prehistoric female sexuality that gave way to the emergence of Homo sapiens 150,000 years ago, citing evolutionary circumstances that led to the development of religion, death awareness, patriarchal culture, and human love. Reprint.
Reviews
Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking... brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human. (Donald Johanson, author of "Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind")
"Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking ... brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human."
Author Bio
Leonard Shlain is the author of Art & Physics- Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light, and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess- The Conflict Between Word and Image. He is the chief of laparoscopic surgery at California Medical Center in San Francisco.
