On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of How Our Planet is Populated

Sex is costly, dangerous and weird. Why on earth should natural selection smile on a mechanism that creates individuals radically different from those who have, by reproducing, already demonstrated their fitness? Lixing Sun, in this thrilling biological detective story, brilliantly told and relentlessly entertaining, romps towards an answer -- Charles Foster, author of THE EDGES OF THE WORLD Exciting, mysterious, and illuminating. Sun succeeds in doing the nearly impossible: conveying complex up-to-the-minute science in a style that is not only accessible but fascinating and even sexy. On the Origin of Sex is simply brilliant, helping the reader appreciate sex's glorious complexity throughout the living world -- David P Barash, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington, author of THE SOUL DELUSION Praise for previous works * : * A tour de force of evolutionary biology * Wall Street Journal * This eye-opening book by Lixing Sun expertly explains how the natural world is filled to the brim with misleading signals and subterfuge -- Frans de Waal A highly readable and well-written...wide-ranging and interdisciplinary book * Psychology Today *