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Sexuality, Reproduction, and Birth
2019The chapter extends discussion of the human reproductive life course by providing a focus on male and female sexuality and the common result of that sexuality, the production of offspring via childbirth. It begins with an overview of sexuality in non-human primates, with emphasis on variability, considering ways in which sexual behaviours of our ...
Wenda R. Trevathan, Wulf Schiefenhövel
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Sexual Violence and Reproductive Health
Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2000Sexual violence is a significant public health problem, and has been linked to adverse effects on women's physical and mental health. Although some advances in the research have been made, more scientific exploration is needed to understand the potential association between sexual violence and women's reproductive health, and to identify measures that ...
Pamela M. McMahon +2 more
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Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction
Nature, 2001The maintenance of sexual reproduction is a problem in evolutionary theory because, all else being equal, asexual populations have a twofold fitness advantage over their sexual counterparts and should rapidly outnumber a sexual population because every individual has the potential to reproduce.
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2022
The chapter analyses the topics of sexuality and reproduction from the point of view of legal feminism, with specific attention towards Italian feminist theories in the 1970ies.
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The chapter analyses the topics of sexuality and reproduction from the point of view of legal feminism, with specific attention towards Italian feminist theories in the 1970ies.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health
Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, 2022Danielle, Mazza, Jessica R, Botfield
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1973
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the basic cycle of sexual reproduction in ascolichens and ascomycetes, morphology and anatomy of the ascocarp and its types in pyrenolichens and discolichens. In the non-lichenized ascomycetes, the gametophyte consists of mycelia and appendages, sclerotia, and stromas and produces three types of reproductive ...
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Publisher Summary This chapter describes the basic cycle of sexual reproduction in ascolichens and ascomycetes, morphology and anatomy of the ascocarp and its types in pyrenolichens and discolichens. In the non-lichenized ascomycetes, the gametophyte consists of mycelia and appendages, sclerotia, and stromas and produces three types of reproductive ...
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On the Origin of Sexual Reproduction
Science, 2009Why sex? In the sixth essay in Science 's series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Carl Zimmer explores why so many species take such a labyrinthine path to reproduction, when straightforward routes are available.
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Endorphins, Sexuality, and Reproduction
Beta-endorphin is secreted from the hypothalamus and pituitary in both mother and newborn. The placenta produces numerous pituitary hormones from the third month of pregnancy, one of which is βE. It has been suggested that βE has a role in the appetitive and precopulatory phase of sexual behavior in animals.openaire +2 more sources