Sex on Earth

A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments

Mr Jules Howard

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Bloomsbury Sigma
01 September 2015

Sexual behaviour; Popular science; Animal reproduction; Wildlife: general interest

A journey of discovery through the ins and outs of reproduction in the animal kingdom

'Written with Bill Bryson–like wit' Booklist

'A writer who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature’s red-light district could one ask for?' Natural History Magazine

1,000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex

happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more

colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic

battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females

collided, generation after generation.

All of your ancestors

took part and succeeded – an unbroken chain of sex right back to the

dawn of complex life on Earth. Well done you. Well done everything.

The world in which we live rings, bleeds, and howls with sex. It’s

everywhere. Right now warring hordes are locking horns, preening

feathers, rampaging lustfully across the savanna, questioning the

fidelity of the ones they love. Birds are singing, flowers bloom. A

million females choose; a billion penises ejaculate (or snap off); a

trillion sperm battle, block and tackle.

Written in a brilliantly engaging

style by biologist Jules Howard, this fascinating and highly readable

work covers the how and why of sex on Earth, in all its diversity. From

sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, spent males,

racy harems, clitoral births, hips, breasts and birdsong,

penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits,

monogamy and true love, all this and more is discussed in Sex on

Earth, as Jules takes us on a voyage of discovery of the ins and

outs of animal reproduction.

By: Mr Jules Howard
Imprint: Bloomsbury Sigma
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9781408193433
ISBN 10: 1408193434
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Yang Guang, Thank You, Ma’am Chapter 1: Jurassic Pork Chapter 2: The Irascible Hulk Chapter 3: Waiting for Frog ‘O’ Chapter 4: The Cloaca Monologues Chapter 5: The Aedeagus Complex Chapter 6: The Town that Sperm Built Chapter 7: Land of the Sexless Zombie Time-travellers Chapter 8: The Human Frequency Chapter 9: The Insurmountable Hump Chapter 10: The Pink in Evolution’s Rainbow Chapter 11: Mite of the Living Dead Chapter 12: The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 13: Sex: The Arena Tour Chapter 14: My Chemical Romance

Jules Howard is a zoologist, author, blogger and broadcaster. He writes on a host of topics relating to animal life, and appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on TV and radio, including Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, BBC’s The One Show, BBC Breakfast and on BBC Radio 5 Live. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000 young people closer to the natural world. He lives in Northamptonshire with his wife and two children. @juleslhoward / www.juleshoward.co.uk

Reviews for Sex on Earth: A Journey Through Nature's Most Intimate Moments

Howard has written with Bill Bryson-like wit about the sex of pandas, dinosaurs, frogs, flamingos, hedgehogs, insects, and other creatures. Readers may laugh while they learn. * Booklist * ... A writ-er who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature's red-light district could one ask for? * Natural History Magazine * ... does an admirable job of separating the scientific from the smutty ... this book is highly entertaining and informative. -- John Bradshaw * BBC Focus * ...the infectious optimism of his fascination with an Earth full of beings doing exactly what they need to go on gives the reader a comforting sense that, in the grand scheme of things, everything is right with the world. * Publisher's Weekly * ...brilliantly informative yet entertainingly accessible guide to reproduction across the planet. -- Sally Morris * Daily Mail *