Title:
The dawn of the deed : the prehistoric origins of sex / John A. Long.
Author:
Long, John A., 1957-
Long, John A., 1957- Hung like an Argentine Duck.
Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Call Number:
QH481 .L66 2012
ISBN:
9780226492544
Physical Description:
278 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Originally published under title: Hung like an Argentine duck : a journey back in time to the origins of sexual intimacy. Sydney : HarperCollins Pubishers Australia, 2011.
Contents:
Sex, death, and evolution -- The machismo of the Argentine duck -- The mother of all fossils -- The ptyctodontid kind of congress -- Announcing fossil sex to the Queen -- Paleozoic paternity problems -- Finding the daddy fish -- Down and dirty in the Devonian -- At the dawn of archaic sex -- Sex and the single ostracod -- Sex on the beach -- Dinosaur sex and other earthshaking discoveries -- We ain't nothing but mammals -- Sperm wars : what fossils can't tell us -- From clasper to penis : we've come a long way, baby -- The greatest mystery of biology.
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