The Sexual Evolution Quotes

“Once the barriers and stigma were removed, the underlying biological reality was revealed.”
― Nathan H. Lents, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships―A Provocative Look at Sexual Behavior Through the Lens of Evolution, Expand Your Understanding

“Bonobos, our closest living relatives, are a highly sexual species, and that same-sex sexual activity is literally a daily practice for them. The most direct result of all this gay sex is peace and social harmony.”
― Nathan H. Lents, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships―A Provocative Look at Sexual Behavior Through the Lens of Evolution, Expand Your Understanding

“Our tendency to routinely invoke deception as an explanation for bird behavior says more about our species than theirs.”
― Nathan H. Lents, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships―A Provocative Look at Sexual Behavior Through the Lens of Evolution, Expand Your Understanding

“The notion that sex must be binary because there are only two kinds of gamete is demolished by the existence of hermaphrodites and parthenogenetic animals.”
― Nathan H. Lents, The Sexual Evolution