The topic of sex always captivates us. Sex is the source of our deepest pleasures, and it also often becomes the cause of human suffering. This book is a story about human sexuality, how and why it came to be as we know it. Jared Diamond, the great popularizer of science, helps us understand what makes us human and not just a “naked ape”, using his entire arsenal of magic tricks: unexpected comparisons, broad generalizations and the ability to look at familiar things in a new way.< /p>

Jared Diamond (1937) is a famous American biogeographer, anthropologist and writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of the world bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee.* * *Why do people, unlike most animals, they try not to have sex in front of their fellow tribesmen?* * *How is it that we make love not so much for procreation as for pleasure?* * *Why do men and women, contrary to the logic of evolution, form strong married couples? * * *Why are we so radically different in our sexual behavior from even our closest relatives, the great apes?

Jared Diamond makes a compelling case that our unusual sexuality played as much of a role in human development as our big brains and skill. walk on two legs.* * *This is the story of how sex made a man out of a monkey