We find ourselves in a time of great social upheaval. People are testing the boundaries of just about everything related to sex and gender. Biological sex, long thought to be a simple binary, is now being understood as a spectrum. Gender is being uncoupled from sex and expanded to an astounding range of diversity. The traditional categories of sexual attraction are being replaced by more creative labels.
Where is this shift coming from? The answer may surprise you.
Diverse sexual behaviour is not a new development, or even a human one. It didn't emerge from recent progressive culture; it's the product of billions of years of experimentation throughout the animal kingdom.
Whether it's sunfish with four genders, monkeys that pay for sex, swans that prefer threesomes, or gay penguins raising adopted chicks, nature, it turns out, has made a lot of space for diverse genders and sexual behaviours.
We're delighted to welcome American scientist and university professor Nathan H. Lents to discuss his book The Sexual Evolution, an amusing and meticulously researched study that proves that diverse genders and sexuality have evolutionary functions far beyond procreation.
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