Abstract

Sex Differences serves as an advanced text for courses in evolutionary and human biology, psychology, and sexuality and gender studies. It also serves as a reference source for academic professionals in these disciplines. The book covers the evolution of sex and sex differences, and sex differences and sexual strategies in non-human and human animals. The final chapter addresses issues of sex and gender in interpersonal relationships, organizations and politics. Diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables illustrate key concepts; cartoons and photos provide visual breaks and an element of humor.

• Examines sexual differences from a multi-level comparative approach
• Contains a thorough coverage of literature through 1998 and into 1999
• Illustrates pages with a generous use of cartoons, photos, figures, and diagrams
• Invites bonus learning with special interest boxes interspersed throughout text
• Presents a critical analysis
• Includes a combination of feminist and evolutionary thinking

"...useful for the professors as well as the students."
-ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
"Mealey's contribution is an authoritative, well-written, and useful textbook ..."
-THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY
"...Linda Mealey's excellent textbook... the first and most comprehensive scientific book on sex differences..."
-PSYCHOLOGY, EVOLUTION & GENDER
"This highly informative, compelling and readable treatment... will forever change the way all of us think about why we are the way that we are."
-Professor Robert Hinde, Cambridge University
"In summary, Sex Differences surpasses all earlier attempts at reaching the text book market in the field of evolutionary behavioral studies."
-JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH
"The amount of literature reviewed for the book is vast..."
-POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
"...Linda Mealey is right on the mark... in her well-conceived and well-executed upper-division textbook on sex differences..."
-EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR