Monday, July 2, 2007

Female reproductive strategies

From Jared Diamond's article "Sex and the female agenda - evolution of concealed ovulation in the human female":

Most female mammals are anything but subtle when it comes to telling males it's time for sex. Not humans. For good evolutionary reasons, women have found it's much better to keep men in the dark...

Physchology Today on another long time puzzle of evolutionary theory - function of female orgasm:
Compared with the more frequent and easily achieved orgasm men experience, women's sexual climax has remained a mystery. After all, women do not need to experience orgasm in order to conceive. So what is the function of orgasm in females?

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