The Origins of the Love Song
Sexual Selection or Sexual Frustration?
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2023
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New edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-5013-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-5013-1 (ISBN)
The book offers a radically new perspective on the origins of the love song and human sexuality in an evolutionary context. By comparing different human societies and animal species, past and present, it reveals that love songs, romantic love and exclusive pair-bonds are not the original evolutionary features of Homo sapiens. One of the key findings of the book is that early humans practiced multiple-partner sexual relations, similar to our closest relatives bonobos and chimpanzees, but, with the emergence of culture and sexual taboo, their behaviour had to adjust. It contends that, since the exodus from Africa and the rise of culture, humans started to distance themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom, drastically restraining their innate sexual nature. The book will appeal to both scholars and laypeople with an interest in evolutionary theory, socio-biology, anthropology, and the origins of culture.
Nino Tsitsishvili is an evolutionary musicologist at the University of Melbourne. She has authored one book and 24 scholarly articles and chapters, in addition to editing one volume. Her article “A Historical Examination of the Links Between Georgian Polyphony and Central Asian-Transcaucasian Monophony” (2010) analyses musical styles, archaeological cultures, and physical anthropology in a comparative multidisciplinary approach to show the influx of a new population and with it, new musical system into the autochthonous population of the east Caucasus. Her research interests include the evolutionary origins of human sexual behaviour.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 212 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5275-5013-3 / 1527550133 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5275-5013-1 / 9781527550131 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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