{"title":"Christopher Ryan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sex-at-dawn-how-we-mate-why-we-stray-and-what-it-means-for-modern-relationships-paperback","title":"Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSex at Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way. By examining the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior the authors are able to expose the fallacies and weaknesses of standard theories proposed by most experts. This is a provocative, entertaining, and pioneering book. I learned a lot from it and recommend it highly.\" -- Andrew Weil, M.D.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSex at Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e irrefutably shows that what is obvious--that human beings, both male and female, are lustful--is true, and has always been so.... The more dubious its evidentiary basis and lack of connection with current reality, the more ardently the scientific inevitability of monogamy is maintained--even as it falls away around us.\" -- Stanton Peele, Ph.D.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA controversial, idea-driven work of evolutionary psychology and anthropology that challenges everything you (think you) know about sex, monogamy, marriage, and family. In the words of Steve Taylor (\u003ci\u003eThe Fall, Waking From Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eSex at Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a wonderfully provocative and well-written book which completely re-evaluates human sexual behavior and gets to the root of many of our social and psychological ills.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if our struggles with monogamy, jealousy, and libido aren't a personal failure, but an evolutionary mismatch?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Standard Narrative: \u003c\/b\u003e A look at how the conventional story of human monogamy was built on flawed, outdated assumptions from the Victorian era.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePrimate Politics: \u003c\/b\u003e Why our peaceful, hypersexual bonobo cousins may be a better model for our ancestral past than the violent, hierarchical chimpanzee.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eForaging Societies: \u003c\/b\u003e An exploration of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who lived in fiercely egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and even sexual partners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSperm Competition: \u003c\/b\u003e How human anatomy--from testis size to the female orgasm--points to a prehistory of multiple mating partners for both sexes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eModern Relationships: \u003c\/b\u003e A new framework for understanding why passion fades, why so many struggle with monogamy, and what it means for our relationships today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everything we \"know\" about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality to show how far from human nature monogamy really is. In \u003cem\u003eSex at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, the authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity.\u003c\/p\u003e--Tony Perrottet, author of Napoleon's Privates\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá debunk almost everything we \"know\" about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality to show how far from human nature monogamy really is. In \u003cem\u003eSex at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, the authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51364970365151,"sku":"9780061707810","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Z71RF040UT9780061707810.webp?v=1789055619"},{"product_id":"civilized-to-death-the-price-of-progress-paperback","title":"Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which \"progress\" has perverted the way we live--how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die--in this \"engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking\" (Booklist) book.Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending--balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind's greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You're lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren't. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the \"progress\" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death \"will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light\" (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that \"the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us\" (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377602461919,"sku":"9781451659115","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uk-bGF8qys9781451659115.webp?v=1789236166"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/christopher-ryan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}