What is sex?
By: Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
Contributors: Sagan, Dorion, 1959-
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Editions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Sex -- History; Sex (Biology) -- History
Description: Featuring numerous full-color photos and illustrations, this book examines the evolutionary history of sexual reproduction. From the thermodynamic underpinnings of sex to the beginnings of human society's decoupling of sex and reproduction, the authors write in a popular science mode on reproduction in species from humans to insects and bacteria to peacocks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
"A Peter N. Nevraumont book."