The Origins of the Love Song

Sexual Selection or Sexual Frustration?

Nino Tsitsishvili (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

209 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-9069-4 (ISBN)

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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	03.01.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5275-9069-0 / 1527590690
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-9069-4 / 9781527590694
Zustand	Neuware