Man And Woman, Part Ii: The Sexual Deal: A Story Of Civilization

February, 1982

Homo sapiens. Types: male and female. Age: about 400,000, with known ancestors of 3,500,000. Distribution: virtually entire surface of planet Earth. Societies: agricultural and industrial, with a few primitive hunter-gatherers. Mode of reproduction: sexual. Nearest living relative: chimpanzee. Characteristics: intelligent, dominant, highly sexed. Question: Why?A visitor from another galaxy who materialized here with limitless funds would have a hard time explaining to her distant bosses why huma...

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