Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People – Joan Roughgarden Free Audiobook

Written by Joan Roughgarden
Read by Carrington MacDuffie
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins

In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science–and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution’s Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. A new preface shows how this witty, playful, and daring book has revolutionized our understanding of sexuality.

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Note: this book has been shared on this site already, but is barely seeded. After months it finally downloaded as two big mp3 files, which I then divided up and labeled because I’m a tad neurotic.