How Sex Works

Name: How Sex Works
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Author: Sharon Moalem
ISBN: 9780061768705

Author: Sharon Moalem

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/28/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Life Sciences

Synopsis

“Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It’s almost as much fun, and needs less energy.”
— Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History ""How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient thrill of a gossip rag.""
—O magazine Medical maverick and New York Times bestselling author of Survival of the Sickest Dr. Sharon Moalem presents an insightful and engaging voyage through the surprising history and evolution of sexual reproduction. Fans of Freakonomics, Blink, You: The Owner’s Manual, and Why Do Men Have Nipples will find many engaging insights in How Sex Works.

About Sharon Moalem

Dr. Sharon Moalem is an award-winning neurologist and evolutionary biologist, with a PhD in human physiology. His research brings evolution, genetics, biology, and medicine together to explain how the body works in new and fascinating ways. He and his work have been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on Today, and in magazines such as New Scientist, Elle, and Martha Stewart's Body + Soul. Dr. Moalem's first book was the New York Times bestseller Survival of the Sickest. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlene on June 17, 2016

Great book about sex. Moalem brings a nice balance to the discussion. Using a lot of traditional ideas about sex (e.g. sperm is plentiful and eggs are rarer) as well as more updated ideas (e.g. human males' large balls serve as refrigerators for sperm that are ready to compete), Moalem wrote the boo......more

Goodreads review by Hester on August 25, 2009

This is a well-written, interesting book. If you read science articles frequently, most of what you read is not new. I still ended up learning how female ejaculation is still a mystery to many doctors. Warning: while most of the book is not graphic, a couple passages gave me pause. I learned that wh......more

Goodreads review by Jocelyn on November 20, 2018

Had a friend recommend this who likes nonfiction books that describe how and why different body process work and happen. This broke down what is going on in male and female bodies and in various animals. The most fascinating parts were when animal processes were described and explained and how simil......more