Sex, Time, and Power
How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
$38.99
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2004
Summary
As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from.
Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142004678 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142004677 |
| Author: | Leonard Shlain |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 140mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking… brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human. (Donald Johanson, author of Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind)
Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking… brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human. (Donald Johanson, author of “Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind”)
“Compelling, scholarly, thought-provoking … brings a stimulating new perspective to the question of what it means to be human.”
Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain
Leonard Shlain is the author of Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light, and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. He is the chief of laparoscopic surgery at California Medical Center in San Francisco.
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