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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

by Olivia Judson

4.03 · rating details · 773 ratings · 179 reviews

"Delightful . . . Easy to understand and hard to resist, it's sex education at its prime--accurate, comprehensive, and hilarious." --"Newsweek
An uproarious and authoritative natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation, this bestselling guidebook to sex reveals, for example, when necrophilia is acceptable...more

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Published June 1st 2003 by Vintage (first published January 28th 2002)

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Jan 10, 2012

Richard rated it

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Shelves: bookclub, non-fiction, science, science-evolution

He comes home, just a little late, to a quiet house. As he opens the door, he can smell the Chinese takeout she had mentioned in her text message.

Dropping his bag, he turns into the dining room and stops short. Spread across the table, mixed in with the takeout cartons, are dozens of academic journals, along with notepads full of scrawled handwriting and hastily drawn figures. But what his eyes linger over are other things, like the empty caulking gun, the bathing cap, several rubber...more

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May 07, 2008

Abigail rated it

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I LOVE this book. Written in the style of an advice-columnist for all organisms big and small, Olivia Judson-- a Stanford- and Oxford-educated PhD-- makes learning biology fun and easy. This is all about evolutionary biology as it applies to sex, and this is fascinating. The variety of ways different species interact, have sex, reproduce, eat their spouses, kill their children. . . it's fabulous. It actually made me appreciate things like sea worms and mites. Mites!!

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Dec 29, 2008

Ceridwen rated it

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Shelves: non-fiction

Writing about sex is tricky, because you immediately are set upon by all manner of ideologies. Every religion, political ism, or psychology has a stance, usually amounting to different flavors of "don't do that; that's not right." Since Darwin, it's been almost a sport to use evolutionary biology to those ends: x isn't found in nature, y is aberrant, caused by disease or choice, and has no evolutionary benefit, etc.

Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, adopts the perso...moreWriting about sex is tricky, because you immediately are set upon by all manner of ideologies. Every religion, political ism, or psychology has a stance, usually amounting to different flavors of "don't do that; that's not right." Since Darwin, it's been almost a sport to use evolutionary biology to those ends: x isn't found in nature, y is aberrant, caused by disease or choice, and has no evolutionary benefit, etc.

Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, adopts the persona of Dr. Tatiana, and accepts questions from all manner of species about the amazing variety in their sexual and reproductive lives. Say you're a slime mold, and are confused about how it works to have at least eight different sexes, or you're an ancient asexual that has done without males for 75 million years, what's up with that? Dr. Tatiana very deftly and with a minimum of jargon relates how the sex thing works, why it works, and what questions biologists have been asking over the years. She keeps the politics to a minimum, instead charting the eye-opening variety out in the various kingdoms.

Politics are inevitable. Biologists fall prey to cultural ideals that may or may not have anything to do with natural selection. Just because an idea sounds good, doesn't mean it's actually the case. Take the whole "men screw around and women really don't" theory. Everyone from some brands of feminists to most churches hold this view, and it was bolstered by the biologist's notion of "eggs expensive, sperm cheap." Females will guard their eggs; males will behave like fire-hoses. Well and good, and self-evident to tons of different types philosophies.

Unfortunately, not actually borne out by data. With the advent of DNA testing, it was found that female promiscuity is more or less the norm, even in species that create what look like monogamous pair bonds. Also, the ladies who stray have more successful children than the ones who don't. Dr. Tatiana lays this out in the opening section, which totally blew my mind, and it only gets weirder and more interesting from there.

She doesn't, however, take the fact of female promiscuity to advocate one thing or another, which is totally sweet. She also doesn't talk much specifically about human sexuality, which is also sweet. I'd rather be stunned by the fact that porcupines have much more intercourse than is necessary for reproduction, that armadillos as a matter of course produce a litter of four clones out of a single fertilized egg, that the penis has evolved no less than seven different times in different classes of animal and on different parts of the body. (Spiders go for the head. There's a bad joke in there. You have until the end of the class to come up with one.)

There are some things I would have liked her to address with more depth: wherefore female pleasure? No one knows, eh? Any ideas? The frothy airiness of the format doesn't really lend itself to in depth discussion, but it probably solves more problems than it creates. There's a huge bibliography should one be interested in reading more.
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Aug 27, 2008

This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For rated it

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Shelves: nonfiction, science, biology, evolution, humor

This is an excellent book about the the sexual habits of life (not just humans, but all life), examined from an evolutionary perspective. The material is whimsically presented as a collection of sex advice columns from Dr. Tatiana: think Dr. Ruth giving advice to insects and fish, reptiles and mammals. An example of a “letter” from one of her readers, early in the book:

“Dear Dr. Tatiana,
My boyfriend is the handsomest golden potto I ever saw. He's got beautiful golden fur on hi...more

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May 25, 2011

Cris rated it

As a science doctoral student, I received this book from a professor teaching a class on epigenetics and other non-Mendelian hereditary patterns. Generally, despite what others seem to think because of my current career path, I do not enjoy reading science-related books in my spare time-- that's what fiction is for! However, I gave this book a go and was so pleasantly surprised to realise that I not only enjoyed it, but actually really liked it. It explores many of the evolutionary aspects of se...more

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May 01, 2011

Jessica rated it

Shelves: nonfiction

I think I found Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation through Amazon first, and then Moby wrote about it in his journal, and then my roommate bought it based on his review, and that's how I ended up with a copy in my hands. The book is a collection of mock advice columns written from a variety of life forms to the fictional sexpert Dr. Tatiana, promising on the back cover to reveal "when necrophilia is acceptable, how to have a virgin birth, and when to eat your lover."

Th...moreI think I found Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation through Amazon first, and then Moby wrote about it in his journal, and then my roommate bought it based on his review, and that's how I ended up with a copy in my hands. The book is a collection of mock advice columns written from a variety of life forms to the fictional sexpert Dr. Tatiana, promising on the back cover to reveal "when necrophilia is acceptable, how to have a virgin birth, and when to eat your lover."

The book is packed with trivia, and at the outset I was delighted: The fruit fly Drosophila bifurca produces sperm twenty times the length of its own body! Male elephants' penises turn green when they get horny! Slime molds have hundreds of sexes instead of just two! Female spotted hyenas have huge phalluses! And, I mean, all this trivia IS exciting. The problem is that the book amounts to a huge collection of loosely connected trivia, without enough depth to make much of the trivia stick. (I had to go hunting back through the book just to come up with interesting trivia to post in this paragraph.) Each "column" starts out with a letter from some hapless creature, to which Dr. Tatiana responds by first giving a little information about the species in question, then compares that species' sexual peculiarities to those of one or two other species, and then wraps up the column by responding directly to the letter's original question. Since each chapter contains a number of columns, it's easy to see how quickly the trivia piles up, and how little attention she ends up giving to any particular species.

For reasons unknown to me, the final chapter of the book does away with the established format and instead acts as a transcription of an episode of the fictional TV show Under The Microscope, which is hosted, of course, by Dr. Tatiana. The cheese factor, which is a little embarrassingly high to begin with in the book, skyrockets in this chapter, but for once we see an entire chapter dedicated to a particular species (in this case, the bdelloid rotifer). This is the only chapter that really left me feeling like I'd learned something, rather than just picked up some interesting trivia to show off at dinner parties.

If you can put up with some cheesy phrasings and the author's unfortunate penchant for writing horrible sex poetry ("When it comes to the topic of gender/Mother Nature's been having some fun/Take nothing for granted! Remember/You won't find any rules - not a one!"), Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a great way to pick up some trivia and amuse yourself with the diversity of sexual behaviors in the world. Just don't expect to learn much about any particular species represented in the book - it's all breadth and no depth, a fun read but ultimately not very lasting.(less)

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May 11, 2010

J.P. Drury rated it

Shelves: non-fiction

While Judson lays out some fantastic natural history, she ultimately spreads herself too thin and falls short of the synthesis she hopes to deliver. Her engagement with sexual selection theory is passe; nothing new, nothing critical.

Perhaps her biggest offense is using the word "rape" to describe forced copulation, a mistake that has been argued against for several decades by feminist biologists. This most grave mistake is felt most deeply when she suggests that rape is an ...more

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Oct 22, 2011

Jeruen Dery rated it

An edited version of this article was first published as Book Review: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson on Blogcritics.org.

It is a rare event that I pick up a non-fiction book and actually enjoy reading it. Based on my track record, non-fiction usually results in disappointment: my previous experiences were mostly based on reading memoirs where I just didn't sympathize with the authors. It thus failed to provide a temporary escape from reality, which I should sa...moreAn edited version of this article was first published as Book Review: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson on Blogcritics.org.

It is a rare event that I pick up a non-fiction book and actually enjoy reading it. Based on my track record, non-fiction usually results in disappointment: my previous experiences were mostly based on reading memoirs where I just didn't sympathize with the authors. It thus failed to provide a temporary escape from reality, which I should say, is one of the major reasons why I read.

But, this current one is an exception. It is rare in many different ways, one of them being the fact that I had to go to my university's Science and Engineering Library to borrow this one, which is a location that I rarely go to borrow books to read for fun. Another quirk is that this book isn't your regular non-fiction read: it's not a diary, not a memoir, nothing like that. Instead, this is actually a science book. But it's not your regular science book; it's a science book about sex, written in the format of an advice column.

Yes folks, you've read that correctly. It is written as an advice column, like your Dear Abby snippet in the newspaper. And yes, the topic is about sex. But not just sex, I mean SEX. Sex, from banana slugs to spotted hyenas, all explained from an evolutionary perspective. And that, is perhaps one of the most captivating aspects of this book, in my opinion.

This book is actually arranged in themes: from the basic, to violence in sex, to monogamy and infidelity, to homosexuality. And yes, it covers a wide variety of species, all of them writing their letters soliciting advice from the fictional Dr. Tatiana. And Dr. Tatiana answers all these sex questions in a wonderful and evolutionary manner. It definitely puts humans and human sexual behavior into perspective.

See, I was definitely impressed with the evolutionary perspective that this book has taken. Sexual behavior in many different species were explained, even radical ones, like for example the annoying habit of female praying mantis to bite off the head of the male during sex. I've learned that doing so makes the males go into a violent spasm that allows the sperm to fertilize the eggs better. Thus, it is death for procreation, something that in evolutionary terms, makes perfect sense.

The aspect of this book that I am amazed about the most is actually not derived from the contents of the book per se, but from the implications that this book has, with respect to current human thinking. Humans tend to think that monogamy should be the norm, that homosexuality should be outlawed, and that rape should be a crime. But by looking at the various species that are present in this planet, we can see several examples in which sex is promiscuous, that males have sex with fellow males, and that sex is a brutal and forced affair. Without condoning rape (I am still a firm believer of free will), I think that this suggests that humans and their idealized view of sex is more of a deviance than is the norm, if one considers the whole spectrum of species that are present in the world.

So, have I enjoyed this book? Definitely. I recommend this to anyone who would love to learn something new. I am not an evolutionary biologist, but this book was so accessible that after reading this, I have the feeling that I have a set of new facts sitting in the back of my head, and somehow, I am glad that I have learned them. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

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Jun 21, 2010

Punk rated it

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Shelves: non-fiction, science

Non-Fiction. Dr. Tatiana is the Dr. Ruth of the animal kingdom, that much is fictional, but the advice she gives is all fact, or, at the very least, theory.

This is evolutionary biology framed like a relationship column. Dr. Tatiana takes letters from the birds, the bees, and the stick insects and advises them on their difficult love lives. It's a great way to get information across and the book is structured well, one topic easily leading to another. Judson never gets too technical a...more

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Nov 24, 2008

Scurra rated it

Shelves: science, non-fiction

Pop-science books are quite hard to write, because the author is often too close to their subject and tends to make assumptions about the reader.

Olivia Judson side-steps this issue nicely by adopting an alternate persona of a sort of tv confessional show host as her authorial voice, and maintaining this conceit throughout the book, which is a glorious romp through the insane reproductive methods employed throughout the living world, from assexual to multisexual and all points in-be...more

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May 19, 2011

Elizabeth rated it

Recommends it for: anyone who wants to learn more about evolutionary biology

Shelves: science-and-medicine, nytimes

From an evolutionary biology perspective, the battle of the sexes isn't just a metaphor: it's a war.

Consider when male and female interests are not aligned: for many species, it's in a female's interest to mate with multiple males, in order to improve the genetic diversity of her offspring. Of course, it's in the male's interest for the female to mate only with him, so that he can fertilize all of the eggs and not have to worry about his offspring competing with their siblings. If ...moreFrom an evolutionary biology perspective, the battle of the sexes isn't just a metaphor: it's a war.

Consider when male and female interests are not aligned: for many species, it's in a female's interest to mate with multiple males, in order to improve the genetic diversity of her offspring. Of course, it's in the male's interest for the female to mate only with him, so that he can fertilize all of the eggs and not have to worry about his offspring competing with their siblings. If the male has a trait that helps him in his goal, his genes will spread through the population; contrariwise, if a female evolves a countermeasure, her genes will likewise spread. It's an ongoing arms race, and a gruesome process: for example, the colony of feral sheep on Ile Longue in the Kerguelen Archipelago, which "makes Lord of the Flies look like a teddy bear convention". Rams will try to knock other rams off of ewes: from the male's perspective, if the female dies from the incessant battering, it's unfortunate, but not much different from the situation where another male besides him mates with her. We'll see how long the colony survives: maybe females will evolve to fight back. In fact, in many species the female kills and eats her mates, possibly as a response to just such a situation.

Judson also addresses those most sexually deviant among all of creation: the true monogamists. (With the advent of DNA testing, it turns out there's even fewer of them than we thought.) A number of hypotheses have been proposed to account for this bizarre practice: there's the Danger Theory of Monogamy (in which leaving to find another mate entails a long or dangerous journey), the Pop-'Em-Out Theory of Monogamy (in which females are ready to breed again in less time than it would take to find another mate), the Sociopath Theory of Monogamy (in which individuals kill off any other members of their own sex, so there are no rivals to be had), and, of course, the Mutually Assured Destruction Theory of Monogamy (in which the female and her offspring absolutely require the male's presence to survive). Lest you think these are all pipe dreams, species exemplify each mode: the mantis shrimp Lysiosquilla sulcata, the Djungarian hamsters of Mongolia, the banded shrimp, and the hornbill, respectively.

Judson closes with that timeless question, Are Men Necessary and concludes "usually, but not always". It's not uncommon for a species to revert from sexual to asexual reproduction, but such species usually go extinct shortly thereafter, with the glaring exception of the bdelloid rotifers, who, with more than 360 species without having reproduced sexually in the past 85 million years, seem to be doing just fine.

Mammals, in fact, seem to be the only clade of animals without any known examples of asexual reproduction. For the most part, mammal sex isn't terribly interesting (only two sexes, no hermaphrodites, we don't gift one another with chemicals that protect us from predators, etc.), with the exception of the spotted hyena, which, I can only say, is truly remarkable for having survived as long as it has (more than 10% of females die the first time they give birth, and more than half of firstborn cubs are stillborn. Take that, intelligent design.)(less)

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Sep 29, 2010

Minli rated it

Shelves: non-fiction, adult

An evolutionary biologist adopts the role of a sex advice columnist, answering questions from all sorts of species, from mammals to birds to insects to bacteria. (Though be warned, heavy on the insects.)

Most of the funny comes from anthropomorphizing the writers of these letters--after all, there's something pretty freaking hilarious about a green spoon worm inhaling her husband. Judson does a great job "debunking" certain ideas, especially ideas of gender, with her thoroug...more

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Aug 06, 2009

Leslie rated it

We read this for my book group. Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist who makes her living studying the mating behaviors of various species. She writes for both The Economist and the New York Times.
For this book, she takes on the persona of Dr. Tatiana, a Dear Abbey-like sex therapist, who fields letters from all sorts of animals having troubles in the bedroom. Here's one example:

Dear Dr. Tatiana,

I'm a European praying mantis, and I've noticed I enjoy sex more if I ...more

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Aug 02, 2011

Bill rated it

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As I started to read this book, I was at first disappointed. I am a big fan of Olivia Judson's New York Times' columns and was looking forward to finally getting around to this. And it was written with her usual efficiency and humor so that was good. But...really...I didn't care about the sex lives of "all creation" and found myself really bored. Bummer.

But I pushed on, and as I should have expected, I was quite rewarded. The book is a fascinating compendium of creatures large and smal...more

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Feb 13, 2010

Alan Marchant rated it

Shelves: nonfiction, science

Olivia Judson's tell-all book would rate at least 4 stars if she had stuck to her knitting. She provides plenty of fascinating details illustrating the diversity of sex in the natural world.

But the presentation is diluted by her tiresome sex therapist schtick. Then there is the repetitive reliance on the empty Darwinian tautology to explain gee-whiz sexual phenomena. In many cases, she provides the necessary detail (protection for the young, eliminating competing gametes, improved...more

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Feb 01, 2009

gabrielle rated it

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Shelves: humor, comfort-food

I can only read the advice-column format in small doses, but I *love* this book. It puts to rest the notion that we should look to nature to define what's "natchrel" as far as sexuality is concerned. Animals do some kinky shit. For maximal enjoyment, find a biology geek buddy & take turns reading the sections aloud to each other.

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Mar 02, 2009

rivka rated it

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Shelves: non-fiction

Good bathroom reading. Works well in small snippets.

Amusing and educational; would have preferred the omission of the lectures. Just because something is normal for bugs or snails doesn't make it so for humans. And I prefer not to have thinly-disguised anti-religious screeds tacked onto otherwise enjoyable books.

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Jan 16, 2011

Alexis rated it

This book is fantastic! It's formatted like a love & sex advice column... except all the letters are from various members of the animal kingdom. "Dr. Tatiana" imparts suggestions to these forlorn metazoans on how to better their intimate lives. Are you a European praying mantis who is troubled by the fact that you enjoy coitus better when it involves biting your lover's head off? "Dr. Tatiana" may have some words of sage wisdom for you. Are you a black vulture crusading for f...more

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May 05, 2010

Debs rated it

Recommended to Debs by: Julie

Shelves: 2010, borrowed, nonfiction

Although it was entertaining, it was a bit watered down for my taste - it's primary goal seemed to be to entertain ("teehee, I'm reading about sex") rather than make a serious study of it. I found that she sometimes jumped to conclusions that didn't have much to do with what she was saying or just randomly switched subjects.

If entertainment what you're looking for, you'll like it. If you want a little more depth and want to think seriously, try "Bonk". It was f...more

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May 17, 2011

Rory rated it

It's not a case of style versus substance, since there is a lot of substance to this book. However, the format leaves the reader with a long confused list of species reproductive strategies at the back of their minds with little coherence or structure.

The format, while titillating and unique for a popular science book, ultimately fails. Easily readily = easily forgettable.

On the academic side, for a modern book about sexual anatomy and sexual behaviours, there is a conspicuou...more

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Mar 15, 2009

Micki rated it

Evolution is just amazing! How many different forms it takes, in order to promote and continue itself.

It's really fun to compare what we know of human sexual habits with the habits of the creatures in this book . . . and it really seems as though humans are still in flux, still experimenting with the best way to carry on human genes.

Then again, maybe all creatures are still exploring "alternative sexualities," but just not in front of the researchers!

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Mar 14, 2009

Mel rated it

My family read this book together to pass the time on our weekly trip to my parent's house. The short chapters and anecdotal style were particularly well suited to the venue.

Dr. Judson (aka Dr. Tatiana) uses a fictional advice column to introduce a species with differentiated sexual characteristics in each section, then compares and contrasts other species. The variety of material is excellent, the descriptions are clear and compelling, and the analysis is at good level for a non-b...more

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Oct 05, 2008

Sadie rated it

Shelves: readable-science

This book is a really fun way to read about different reproductive strategies and behaviors in the animal world. Dr. Judson gives some strikingly funny examples in a "Dr. Ruth" framework, then rationally explains how the behaviors and strategies might have evolved. Unlike some other scientists writings for popular audiences, she is very good at pointing out how little we know about why or even how some of the processes work.
Most of all, though, I appreciate the way she has refe...more

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Apr 09, 2010

David rated it

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Shelves: unexpectedly-terrific

This exuberantly brilliant book never fails to remind me of one of the more obvious puzzles surrounding those who subscribe to strict creationism. You know, the people who actually believe that the Lord created the universe according to the seven-day timetable laid out in Genesis. Quite apart from the convoluted mental processes needed to accommodate such inconvenient evidence as the entire fossil record, (remember, these people would have us believe that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, Flintsto...more

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Jul 09, 2008

AnnP Palomo rated it

Shelves: book-club

My book discussion group picked this one.

I admit that I did not read it thoroughly. Nevertheless, I was impressed at the unique and amusing approach to explaining the evolutionary biology of sex. I don't think just anyone could have pulled it off. The author obviously knows her stuff, did thorough research, and, judging from her photo on the back inside cover, got some good genes in her own evolutionary biology. Hey, an attractive and obviously intelligent woman writing about sex...more

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Sep 17, 2007

Jennifer rated it

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Recommends it for: Science buffs

For anyone who's ever wondered about the sexual habits of honeybees, hyenas, slime molds, rotifers, and all other manner of creatures great and small, this is the book for you. Using the guise of breezy sex columnist Dr. Tatiana Judson explores the many forms of reproduction practiced by a wide variety of organisms. Along the way she introduces major tenets of evolutionary biology and suggests evolutionary explanations for seemingly bizarre sexual practices. This is not a book for creationist...more

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Nov 21, 2007

Tracey rated it

Shelves: libraryread, pop-science

Judson gives examples of a multitude of sexual practices in the animal, fish and insect kingdoms, all in the guise of an advice column. The writing style is very accessible (and funny at times!); the scholarly aspects are covered in the Notes and Bibliography sections.

Each "column" covers a specific practice - with several creatures being discussed. The columns are then grouped together into 3 main sections; Let Slip the Whores Of War! (promiscuity), The Evolution of Depra...more

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Mar 26, 2010

Nicole rated it

I learned all sorts of interesting facts from this book, although I'm not sure how many of them will ever be useful to me. I appreciated how the author admitted when the answer to a particular question was unknown and how she provided extensive, but not obtrusive, references. The writing was clear and accessible and kept jargon to a minimum, but I found myself tired of the advice column gimmick before I finished the book.

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Dec 13, 2008

Rebecca rated it

Recommends it for: people who are curious about evolutionary biology but not interested in sciencey books

Shelves: biology, nonfiction

A playful yet very informative look at evolutionary biology as it plays out in the sex lives of dozens of different creatures.

"Dr. Tatiana's" is framed as a sex advice column written by an evolutionary biologist for the benefit of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, and even invertebrates. The questions submitted to the column are beyond entertaining ("I'm a queen bee, and I'm worried. All my lovers leave their genitals inside me and then drop dead. Is this normal?")....more

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Mar 05, 2010

Dsizemor rated it

This is a GREAT book. It was recommended by a biology professor, and presents fascinating evolutionary biology in a way that is spectatularly entertaining.
Animals of all types write letters to a sex advice columnist about their bazarre mating strategies. She explains why they have adopted such interesting behaviors and structures. It's hilarious as well as educational.

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Olivia Judson (born 1970) is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. Judson, who is the daughter of science historian Horace Freeland Judson, was a pupil of W.D. Hamilton. She graduated from Stanford University, gained a doctorate from Oxford, and worked for some time as a journalist before becoming a research fellow at Imperial College London.

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