ANTH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Eric Wolf, Bigender, Complex Dynamics
7 Dec 2015
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Sexuality the complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviours that are related to erotic physical contact and the cultural arena within which debate a/b what kind of physical desires and behaviours are right, appropriate, and natural. Birds do it, bees do it: the intersection of sexuality and biology. That that sexuality is the most natural thing. Research reveals actually a distinct outlier in the animal kingdom. Jared diamond suggests that human sexuality id completely abnormal by the standards of the world"s 30 million animal species and 4300 mammal species. Diamond makes clear that humans have developed a sex life that lies far outside that natural framework of that of our mammal relatives. Evolutionary biology focuses on the ways in which human evolution has created biological drives that are embedded in the genes that shape the human brain and control the body"s hormones. Genetic science still has limitations as predictor of individ human sexual behaviours.
