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A Little Queer Natural History
Josh L. Davis
(2024)
Sprog: Engelsk
University of Chicago Press
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- Paperback: 125 sider
- Udgiver: University of Chicago Press (Oktober 2024)
- ISBN: 9780226837031
Beautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature.
From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mushrooms with over 23,000 mating types, sex in the natural world is wonderfully diverse. Josh L. Davis considers how, for many different organisms--animals, plants, and fungi included--sexual reproduction and sex determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction among genes, hormones, environment, and chance. As Davis introduces us to fascinating biological concepts like parthenogenesis (virgin birth), monoecious plants (individuals with separate male and female flowers), and sex-reversed genitals, we see turtle hatchlings whose sex is determined by egg temperature; butterflies that embody male and female biological tissue in the same organism; and a tomato that can reproduce three different ways at the same time. Davis also reveals animal and plant behaviors in nature that researchers have historically covered up or explained away, like queer sex among Adélie penguins or bottlenose dolphins, and presents animal behaviors that challenge us to rethink our assumptions and prejudices. Featuring fabulous sex-fluid fishes and ant, wasp, and bee queens who can choose both how they want to have sex and the sex of their offspring, A Little Queer Natural History offers a larger lesson: that the diversity we see in our own species needs no justification and represents just a fraction of what exists in the natural world.
From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mushrooms with over 23,000 mating types, sex in the natural world is wonderfully diverse. Josh L. Davis considers how, for many different organisms--animals, plants, and fungi included--sexual reproduction and sex determination rely on a surprisingly complex interaction among genes, hormones, environment, and chance. As Davis introduces us to fascinating biological concepts like parthenogenesis (virgin birth), monoecious plants (individuals with separate male and female flowers), and sex-reversed genitals, we see turtle hatchlings whose sex is determined by egg temperature; butterflies that embody male and female biological tissue in the same organism; and a tomato that can reproduce three different ways at the same time. Davis also reveals animal and plant behaviors in nature that researchers have historically covered up or explained away, like queer sex among Adélie penguins or bottlenose dolphins, and presents animal behaviors that challenge us to rethink our assumptions and prejudices. Featuring fabulous sex-fluid fishes and ant, wasp, and bee queens who can choose both how they want to have sex and the sex of their offspring, A Little Queer Natural History offers a larger lesson: that the diversity we see in our own species needs no justification and represents just a fraction of what exists in the natural world.
Introduction Adélie penguin: Homosexual couples Mangrove killifish: Reproducing with itself Duck-billed dinosaur: Bias in names New Mexico whiptail lizard: Parthenogenesis Morpho butterfly: Divided down the middle Western lowland gorilla: Queer behaviour in apes Domestic sheep: Can animals be gay? Saharan cypress: Androgenesis Bicolour parrotfish: Sex-fluid fishes Swans: Male couples as parents Green sea turtle: Temperature-dependent sex determination Giraffe: Homosexuality in the mainstream Common ash: Sexual spectrum Common cockchafer: Historical homosexuality European yew: Sex change European eel: Environment-dependent sex determination White-throated sparrow: Beyond the binary Spotted hyena: Female-led societies Western gull: Lesbian mothers Common bottlenose dolphin: Explaining the gay away Common pill woodlouse: Bacteria-dependent sex determination Bluegill sunfish: Do animals have gender? Common pheasant: Out-sized influence Splitgill mushroom: Thousands of sexes Chinese shell ginger: Temporal sex Cane toad: Intersex animals Moss mites: Ancient asexuals Dungowan bush tomato: Changeable sex Barklice: Sex-reversed genitals Index Further reading References Picture credits
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