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The case of the female orgasm : bias in the science of evolution

Why women evolved to have orgasms—when most of their primate relatives don’t—is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science?
eBook, English, 2005
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
1 online resource (311 pages)
9780674040304, 0674040309
432675780
Introduction
The basics of female orgasm
Pair-bond accounts of female orgasm
Further evolutionary accounts of female orgasm
The byproduct account
Warring approaches to adaptation
Sperm-competition accounts
Bias