A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be

Na protyazhenii vekov zhenskoe telo volnovalo umy ne tol'ko hudozhnikov i pisateley, staravshihsya peredat' vsyu ego prityagatel'nost', no i uchenyh, neizmenno zadavavshihsya odnimi i temi zhe voprosami: pochemu zhenskoe telo tak sil'no otlichaetsya ot muzhskogo? Chto privelo k formirovaniyu etih otlichiy? I kak, stol' hrupkoe, ono vynosit nagruzki i bol' ne tol'ko naravne, no i luchshe muzhchin? Evolyucionnyy genetik i pedagog Dina Emera provela bol'shuyu chast' svoey zhizni za izucheniem evolyucii zhenskogo tela i zhenskoy reproduktivnoy sistemy. Ona issledovala biologicheskie, sociokul'turnye i ekologicheskie faktory, vliyavshie na formirovanie tel osobey zhenskogo pola sredi zhivotnyh i lyudey na protyazhenii tysyacheletiy. I eta kniga, osnovannaya na ee obshirnyh professional'nyh znaniyah i pedagogicheskom opyte, otvetit na vse eti (i mnogie drugie!) voprosy prostym i ponyatnym yazykom, pozvolyaya zaglyanut' daleko v nashe evolyucionnoe proshloe.