Understanding Reproduction
Author(s): Giuseppe Fusco, Alessandro Minelli
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Our understanding of reproduction and reproductive processes is often biased towards the behaviour of organisms most familiar to us. As such, the amazing disparity of the phenomena of reproduction and sex is often overlooked. Understanding Reproduction addresses all the main facets of this large chapter of the life sciences, including discussions of asexual reproduction, parthenogenesis, sex determination, reproductive effort, and much more. The book features an abundance of examples from across the tree of life, including animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria. Written in an accessible and easy to digest style, overcoming the intimidating diversity of the technical terminology, this book will appeal to interested general readers, biologists, science educators, philosophers and medical doctors.
- Covers a wealth of unexpected phenomena in the domain of sex and reproduction, discussing a number of issues that have previously been overlooked
- Features examples from across the tree of life, providing arguments to go beyond the narrow popular perspectives on sex and reproduction
- Identifies issues across the amazing disparity of reproductive phenomena, which are concisely explained and illustrated by examples from all the main branches of the tree of life
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