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More reviews Platform for Sexual Education, Newsletter 004, February 2008 Sex is not always associated with pleasant feelings and memories, sex affects our self-esteem, is dangerous, even fatal for some (especially some animal species), sex is drive and business, is neurosis and appetite (“The perfect woman turns into a pizza after sex”, says Jon Bon Jovi...), sex is masturbation, mingling, conflict, speculation and science fiction, imagination and often unimagination, mythical, genetically determined - and quite cumbersome. And it is not necessary at all - there are enough examples in nature of so-called parthenogenetic or unisexual reproduction, i.e. virgin generation, in which a new individual develops from an egg cell that has not been fertilized by a sperm cell. So why does it still exist? In his book, the journalist Christian Göldenboog tries to answer this question with the help of well-known biologists and geneticists (yes, almost exclusively men), mainly in dialogue form and tries to keep it as understandable as possible. Nevertheless, a bit of perseverance is required, because you have to work your way through almost 240 pages with some quite detailed genetic questions. But afterwards you know (roughly) what alleles are, why sexual recombination brings decisive evolutionary advantages, why egg cell and sperm are different in size and so different and how they arise, why about the same number of males and females are born or why "bad genes" sometimes prevail. Perhaps the most important message of this book is why there is not one human genome, but why there is great diversity through the merging of a male and a female set of chromosomes and why this is crucial to our survival. So if you want to look at the inexhaustible topic of sexuality from a different angle, we recommend this book, especially because of the valuable literature recommendations on the basics and modern approaches of genetics. Fit for Fun, June 2006: Bio tutoring why does the battle between the sexes begin at conception? Christian Göldenboog explains why six tricky questions that have never been dealt with in biology lessons ekz-Informationsdienst (information service for public libraries), 8/2006: A highly informative and challenging book, which is nevertheless easily understandable for scientific laypeople. Recommended without restrictions.
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