Sexo, evolución y el fin de la supremacía masculina
In Women First, physician and anthropologist Melvin Konner examines the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. Using examples from nature—the octopus, the black widow spider, and certain coral reef fish, which can change from male to female in a single reproductive cycle—Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities and the poignant exceptions that challenge the traditional male/female divide.
Meet the hunter-gatherers of Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, creating the figure of the working mother and giving a place to the female voice in the tribe. History upset this balance when societies' orientation toward war and conquest fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has been recovering over the past two centuries and is moving relentlessly toward equality. It won't be the end of men, but it will mean the end...read more
