Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher RyanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: A documentary view of correlating the evolution of sexuality with modern age march of mankind
A unique take on how monogamy is a modern day concept and how a lot of our concepts associated to it today are probably more Victorian (tying in with English colonialisation in that timeframe across the world). The hunter gatherer group shared it all is the bottom line. They try to also compare and contrast wirh our fellow Bonobos on genital sizes and habits to push their point across.
The narrative picks examples from civilisations around the world and adds a new spin to the "it takes a village to raise a child" because of shared paternity as a concept to keep a warring village healthy in the go forward. Monogamy and its safety net could be considered counter intuitive to Darwinian theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest for the given conditions.
I would call this opinions backed with confirmational biased scientific facts rather than a rigorous academic paper that it is fronted as.
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