Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom

by Daphne J. Fairbairn

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The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare to those of many other animals. For instance, the male garden spider spontaneously dies after mating with a female more than fifty times his size. And male blanket octopuses employ a copulatory arm longer than their own bodies to mate with females...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691141967

ISBN13:9780691141961

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.8"

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