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Description:(From the hardcover book jacket flap)What is sex, anyway?In this intriguing book, the widely known team of Lorus J. Milne and his wife Margery consider the world's most fascinating topic from the natural scientist's point of view. It is a book about males and females - about how they tell each other apart and how they act after they've reached a decision. With alert and inquisitive minds, a cameraman's eye, and a zest that makes for piquant reading, the authors investigate the panorama of colorful activities that constitute animal mating behavior - and they come up with some observations bound to amuse and amaze.Sex, they find, is more than skin-deep throughout the animal kingdom. Eyes, for instance, are enormously important in recognition of potential mates, particularly in birds and such luminescent creatures as fireflies and deep-sea denizens. When vision is poor, mates may be located by touch, taste, smell, or sound. Or sometimes special reactions may be needed to bring two sexes into proximity - such as response to food or even to the phases of the moon.Combat between sexual rivals is frequent, and courtship may be a long and immensely intricate ceremony or may not exist at all; but the essential feature of conquest is the mating of microscopic cells. And for perpetuating the miracle of life, animals have developed a remarkable array of specialized devices - from the various patterns of external fertilization found in most fishes and lower marine orders, to internal insemination as we know it in the higher animals, including man.Once the sex cells have in some ways united, sex normally has been determined for the offspring. But how will the offspring emerge from the process? As eggs or as active, living young? Will they be independent, or will they need parental care? The answers to these questions illustrate clearly the superiority of sexual forms of reproduction over vegetative means or virgin birth.And finally, the Drs. Milne present an analysis of the roles of male and female in different ranks of society - the family, tribe, race, kind and kingdom. "The Mating Instinct" provides a nontechnical, highly diverting peek at the mysteries of anatomy, biology and sociology, along with a good many other sciences of today. It tells the most illuminating story there is - the story of life itself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Mating Instinct. To get started finding The Mating Instinct, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 243

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Release: 1954

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Description: (From the hardcover book jacket flap)What is sex, anyway?In this intriguing book, the widely known team of Lorus J. Milne and his wife Margery consider the world's most fascinating topic from the natural scientist's point of view. It is a book about males and females - about how they tell each other apart and how they act after they've reached a decision. With alert and inquisitive minds, a cameraman's eye, and a zest that makes for piquant reading, the authors investigate the panorama of colorful activities that constitute animal mating behavior - and they come up with some observations bound to amuse and amaze.Sex, they find, is more than skin-deep throughout the animal kingdom. Eyes, for instance, are enormously important in recognition of potential mates, particularly in birds and such luminescent creatures as fireflies and deep-sea denizens. When vision is poor, mates may be located by touch, taste, smell, or sound. Or sometimes special reactions may be needed to bring two sexes into proximity - such as response to food or even to the phases of the moon.Combat between sexual rivals is frequent, and courtship may be a long and immensely intricate ceremony or may not exist at all; but the essential feature of conquest is the mating of microscopic cells. And for perpetuating the miracle of life, animals have developed a remarkable array of specialized devices - from the various patterns of external fertilization found in most fishes and lower marine orders, to internal insemination as we know it in the higher animals, including man.Once the sex cells have in some ways united, sex normally has been determined for the offspring. But how will the offspring emerge from the process? As eggs or as active, living young? Will they be independent, or will they need parental care? The answers to these questions illustrate clearly the superiority of sexual forms of reproduction over vegetative means or virgin birth.And finally, the Drs. Milne present an analysis of the roles of male and female in different ranks of society - the family, tribe, race, kind and kingdom. "The Mating Instinct" provides a nontechnical, highly diverting peek at the mysteries of anatomy, biology and sociology, along with a good many other sciences of today. It tells the most illuminating story there is - the story of life itself.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Mating Instinct. To get started finding The Mating Instinct, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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