{"product_id":"sex-time-and-power-how-womens-sexuality-shaped-human-evolution-paperback","title":"Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeonard Shlain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in the bestselling \u003cb\u003eThe Alphabet Versus the Goddess\u003c\/b\u003e, Leonard Shlain's provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSex, Time, and Power\u003c\/b\u003e offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex--a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonard Shlain is the author of \u003cb\u003eArt \u0026amp; Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time \u0026amp; Light\u003c\/b\u003e, and The \u003cb\u003eAlphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image\u003c\/b\u003e. He is the chief of laparoscopic surgery at California Medical Center in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.14 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52735207178547,"sku":"9780142004678","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/93fVuHSoDp9780142004678.webp?v=1763978294","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sex-time-and-power-how-womens-sexuality-shaped-human-evolution-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}