Karthik Shashidhar

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The functioning of natural selection depended on reproduction. The mating habits of humans were no less legitimate a field of study than those of the birds or the bees. This – in countries less embarrassed by sex than Darwin’s own – provided a licence for scientists to investigate the detail and variety of sexual behaviour on a scale that might have impressed even Sade himself.
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