Sex in the Future: The Reproductive Revolution and How it Will Change Us - Hardcover
An authority on human sexual behavior and evolution offers a provocative look at how advances in reproductive technology will affect human behavior and relationships in the twenty-first century. 50,000 first printing.
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Robin Baker is one of the people who brought us the notion of kamikaze sperm: valiant but impotent swimmers who sacrifice themselves so that one (or more) of their brethren--as opposed to some other guy's sperm--will secure a man's genetic legacy. In Sperm Wars, Baker told us that the evolutionary drive of our biology determined with whom we mated. In Sex in the Future, he speculates on how. Using the same format of fictionalized scenarios followed by more factual discussion, Baker peers into his sociobiological crystal ball to forecast how we might reproduce in the future, and what it will do to our society. Baker sees the multiplication of assisted reproductive technologies as a social revolution. Sex, love, and reproduction will be divorced. The concept of heterosexuality will be practically meaningless. Children will be commissioned in a much more precise way than can now be done either through mate selection or gamete selection. Sex in the Future is certainly provocative. Some of the content is factual, some is plausible speculation, and some is fantastical. This is not a book full of useful information for people trying to conceive. The bibliography is slight, and Baker is something of a black sheep in the scientific community, the martial nature of sperm having been largely discredited (New Scientist described him as "a sociobiology zealot"). But it certainly is a brave new world of baby-making out there. Might Baker's "Contraceptive Café" and "Reproductive Restaurant" be part of it? You be the judge. --J.R.
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Robin Baker studied human sexual behavior at the University of Manchester. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers and articles and attends conferences internationally. His work and ideas have been featured on television and radio programs around the world.
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- PublisherArcade Publishing
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1559705213
- ISBN 13 9781559705219
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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