A review by novella42
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Cacilda Jetha, Christopher Ryan

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

A good, fascinating read about human sexual history, the sociocultural evolution of monogamy, and basically all the ways scandalized Victorian scientists made very unscientific hypothesis about gender, sexuality, and how "natural" monogamy is for humans. It also has fascinating implications for human patterns of cooperation vs warfare with comparisons of chimpanzees vs bonobos, something that really did change the way I look at humanity as a whole—for the better.
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