Since Darwin's day, we've been told that
sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as
well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and
women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection
were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative
is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce
rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even
seemingly solid marriages.
How can reality be reconciled with the
accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethå. While debunking almost everything we
"know" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this
provocative and brilliant book.
