Originally published under the title: Hung like an Argentine Duck: a journey back in time to the origins of sexual intimacy.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index.
Contents
Preface: Sex, death and evolution -- The machismo of the Argentine Duck -- The mother of all fossils -- The ptyctodontid kind of congress -- Announcing fossil sex to the queen -- Paleozoic paternity problems -- Finding the daddy fish -- Down and dirty in the Devonian -- At the dawn of archaic sex -- Sex and the single ostracod -- Sex on the beach -- Dinosaur sex and other earthshaking discoveries -- We ain't nothing but mammals -- Sperm wars: what fossils can't tell us -- From clasper to penis: We've come a long way, baby -- Epilogue: The greatest mystery of biology.
