Robin Baker

Forse non tutti sanno che:- il 10% dei bambini sono allevati da un uomo che non è il loro padre genetico, anche se crede di esserlo;- meno dell'1% degli spermatozoi eiaculati da un uomo è in grado di fecondare l'ovulo; il rimanente 99% serve solo a ingaggiare guerre sessuali con spermatozoi di altri uomini;- un uomo e una donna, che si trovino nel deserto o in una modernissima città, avranno da due a tremila rapporti sessuali in tutta la loro vita;- raramente le scappatelle vengono scoperte e anche i tradimenti di lunga durata hanno solo il 50% di probabilità di essere smascherati.Guerre sessuali è il risultato di anni di rigorose ricerche e ci aiuta a comprendere il nostro comportamento sessuale nella sua complesità e, a volte, apparente perversità.

Presumed dead, a group of undergraduate students who go missing on a deserted Pacific island emerge one year later in two groups of ragged (and naked) survivors. All but one of the surviving women have conceived, and two students, plus their professor, are said to have died. In the glare of the world's media, every survivor sticks to the same unconvincing version of events. Piece-by-piece the narrator examines the evidence and conducts interviews with the survivors, to work out exactly what happened on the island during that year. Slowly, a disturbing picture emerges of feral humans driven by rivalry and sexual tension—a Lord of the Flies scenario for adults that suspiciously seems to test the dead professor's theory that by nature people are no different from apes in the wild.

An authority on human sexual behavior and evolution offers a provocative look at how advances in reproductive technology will affect human behavior and relationships in the twenty-first century. 50,000 first printing.

Even the happiest families endure periods of intense conflict and emotional strife. Read this eye-opening book and find out why. What does evolution have to do with morning sickness? With the stressful sound of a baby's cry? With sibling rivalry and adolescent rage? With child abuse? Everything, says Dr. Robin Baker, whose best-selling Sperm Wars illustrated the day-to-day Darwinism of human sexual life. Now Dr. Baker teams up with journalist and children's books author Elizabeth Oram to do the same for parenthood and family life. They look at a variety of instantly recognizable family situations and offer evolutionary explanations for common, often traumatic, events--explanations that not only make clear the genetic roots of family conflicts but that reveal, in many cases, their wider reproductive purpose. Highly provocative yet profoundly persuasive, this compelling book sheds light on the darkest secrets of family life and brings them out into the open where they can be addressed with honesty and without judgment.

Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have for a number of years been interested in the biological implications of sperm from different males competing for fertilization of the egg in the female tract. This book discusses these implications for human sexual behaviour and human infertility problems. Throughout the book, reference is made to work on the sexual behaviour of other animals, particularly primates and other mammals, where the resulting perspective helps to understand human behaviour.

Everyday the headlines bring news of the latest health scare, with worrying predictions for where developments in science will take us. We want and need to understand the phenomena that influence our lives, but science is often more subtle and more complicated than the headlines would suggest. Over a diverse range of subjects, Robin Baker proves that the science we as consumers believe to be true is often an oversimplication - a convenient way of explaining complex subjects which are little understood. His investigations reach their own, startling conclusions. Could it be possible, for example, that using sunscreen is actually increasing our chance of skin cancer? More and more people are taking Prozac, but does science have an easy answer to explain why? We all know the arguments in favour of conservation, but could there by strong biological arguments against it?

In Hollow Men, Strange Women , Robin Baker provides a masterly reappraisal of Israel's experience during its Settlement of Canaan as narrated in the Book of Judges. Written under Assyrian suzerainty in the reign of Manasseh, Judges is both a theological commentary on the Settlement and an esoteric work of prophecy. Its apparent historicity subtly encrypts a grim forewarning of Judah's future, and, in its extensive treatment of otherness, Judges explores the meaning of God's covenant with Israel.Robin Baker's scholarly and perceptive reading draws on a deep understanding of ancient Hebrew and Mesopotamian symbolic codes to interpret the riddles in this many-layered text. The Book of Judges reveals complex literary configurations from which past, present, and future are simultaneously presented.

A man gives a lift to an unusual hitchhiker, a woman who has been thrown bound and naked from a car. On the journey he hears the bizarre but intriguing story of her predicament. It seems that there is nobody who could be the father of her child, least of all her rich powerful and vindictive husband.Mark de Vries has a passion for studying lions and for several months each year he teaches Zoology at an English University. The rest of his time he spends with his research team in a tiny settlement in the remote Kalahari Desert amidst a group of tribal Tswana. Against his will, Mark is drawn into the mystery of the hitchhiker's child - until a sequence of murders, rapes, intimidation and blackmail means that his livelihood and even his survival depend on finding the answer. But it takes a brave experiment by him and his research team to finally discover the truth, an experiment that they have no choice but to conduct on themselves. When the mystery is solved it becomes clear that what happened to the hitchhiker could - without the person's knowledge -happen to anybody. And it is not only women who might suffer the consequences.Set partly in the stifling atmosphere of English academia and partly in the dangerous and endangered wilderness of the Kalahari Desert, THE HITCHHIKER'S CHILD is a story of murder and mystery, love and sacrifice. At its heart are a love-affair between Mark and two of his students, an alternative life philosophy, and an escalating conflict between two very different men.Robin Baker, author of the international best seller SPERM WARS, is an acknowledged authority on sexual biology and psychology. As in his previous two novels, PRIMAL and CABALLITO, the innovative sexual science behind THE HITCHHIKER'S CHILD is real and one day everybody will, and for their own sake must, know of it. But they don't know it yet.

Celebrating the wonders of the animal world Two aspects of the animal world that never fail to fascinate are the diversity of animal behavior and the phenomenon of long-distance migrations. Both are celebrated in these two beautifully illustrated books. Scientists from around the world have pooled their knowledge to introduce an astonishing array of creatures, revealing the unique ways each species faces the day-to-day challenges of survival, whether by changing sex when necessary or journeying from the polar regions to the warm waters of Baja California. Ambitious in scope, these copiously illustrated volumes are filled with photographs, maps, and drawings. 240 pages, 80 000 words 12 1/4 X 9 1/2 inches (310 X 240 mm) 300 full-color photos, illustrations, maps, and diagrams

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Bethany Robinson has always dreamed of marrying a man like the sensitive, caring heroes in the romance novels she loves to read. She has finally found the perfect man. Bethany has fallen in love with a romance author she has been corresponding with by e-mail. She doesn't know his real name, and she only knows he lives in northwestern Pennsylvania. She needs the help of her best friend, Mike Morgan, to find this author who uses the pen name Cade Mason.Mike Morgan has been in love with Bethany Robinson for years, but she only sees him as a rough-around-the-edges heavy equipment operator. She made it clear years ago that they could only be friends. Now she wants him to help her find the elusive author, Cade Mason. Mike has no intention of telling Bethany that not only does he know Cade Mason's real name, he also knows where to find him. It is time for Bethany to forget about Cade Mason and fall in love with him, and he has one summer to make that happen.As Bethany spends the summer helping Mike care for his young daughter, her feelings for Mike grow beyond friendship. But when Bethany learns Mike's secret, will she be able to forgive him so they can have a future together?

Max, a young anthropologist, discovers two handwritten pages written by a Victorian adventuress who lived with an unknown tribe in the Amazon. Determined to discover more, Max is dragged into a world of mysterious suicides, pagan sects, child prostitution and police harassment. Set in the English countryside and Amazon rainforest, CABALLITO portrays an alternative society in which fatherhood has no meaning and communities share everything, including each other. Once, this was how all people lived.

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Max is a young lecturer in anthropology who always saw himself living in the jungle studying never-before-contacted tribes, but at every step he has been thwarted. One day in a second-hand bookshop he discovers a couple of handwritten pages stuck in a book. They seem to have been written by a Victorian adventuress who really had once lived with an unknown tribe in the Amazon. Determined to discover more, Max is dragged into a world of mysterious suicides, pagan sects, child prostitution and police harassment. But as he uncovers fabulous stories of intrepid women following their dreams he also finds love with a talented young photographer desperate to know who she really is. As cultures and moralities collide Max finally gets to live in the Amazon – though not for the reasons he would have wished.CABALLITO is much more than a mystery story about identity, detection and the pursuit of dreams. It is also a vision of an alternative society, one in which there is no such thing as fatherhood, where childhood innocence has no meaning, and where communities openly share everything including each other. Once upon a time it was how all people lived – and a few still do. Baker (author of the modern classic in evolutionary biology SPERM WARS) infuses CABALLITO as he did his previous novel PRIMAL with all his acknowledged expertise on human sexual psychology and behavior.<h2>About the Author</h2>Dr ROBIN BAKER is a novelist, popular science writer, lecturer and broadcaster. A best-selling author in the field of sexual biology, his books have been translated into 28 different languages. These include the novel PRIMAL and the international bestseller SPERM WARS which was based on his own lab's original research on human sexuality. He has also published around 100 scientific papers and articles, and his work and ideas on the evolution of human behaviour have been featured in many radio and television programmes around the world.Since 2002 he has lived in the foothills of the Spanish Sierras with his partner, the writer Elizabeth Oram, and their family. He has six children, two grandchildren (and far too many cats.)

Knowledge is power. So when it is combined with a higher awareness of ourselves, it produces life-changing results. - From The Conclusion From the mind of an unconventional soul, births a myriad of esoteric discussions. This book welcomes all who are open to a modern perspective mixed with ancient teachings on philosophy, spirituality, science, and mysticism. Together we will turn the pages to rediscover our most authentic selves amongst the phenomenons that illustrates the Universe. My hope is that it lights the flame of thought-provoking inspiration in you, that was lit inside of me . Some topics will teach you Visit Robin S. Baker online at www.robinsbaker.com

Espera-se que o divórcio entre sexo e reprodução - que está hoje em andamento - torne-se completo na primeira metade do século XXI. O resultado será uma maior liberdade sexual e uma amplitude cada vez maior de opções reprodutivas Robin Baker Quando as crianças do futuro perguntarem de onde vêm os bebês, "da internet" pode ser a resposta correta. Provocativo e muitas vezes chocante, Sexo No Futuro, de Robin Baker, examina como os avanços nas tecnologias reprodutivas irão transformar o comportamento humano. Partindo de situações fictícias seguidas de discussões teóricas, o professor de zoologia Robin Baker examina sua bola de cristal sociobiológica e sugere como será a reprodução no futuro e os impactos que as novidades na área da genética poderão causar à nossa sociedade. Segundo Baker, as novas técnicas de reprodução assistida correspondem a uma verdadeira revolução social. A fertilização in-vitro e a barriga de aluguel podem significar não só o fim da infertilidade mas também, o fim da necessidade de homens e mulheres se relacionarem sexualmente com fins reprodutivos. O autor ressalta ainda que o armazenamento de óvulos e esperma humanos mostram que, literalmente, já existe um mercado genético, com oferta, procura e - pasmem - até promoções. Neste admirável mundo novo, sexo, amor e reprodução estarão definitivamente divorciados e o conceito de heterossexualidade perderá praticamente o sentido. A concepção de uma criança será feita de forma muito mais precisa e filhos de casais homossexuais e pais solteiros serão uma realidade. Sexo No Futuro desperta para um futuro que a cada dia parece mais próximo e com este cenário onde ter bebês independerá de haver sexo, ele nos provoca adiantando que a atividade sexual se restringirá a motivações meramente "recreativas", a reprodução se tornará puramente clínica e só os que não puderem pagar por esses serviços optarão por ter filhos à moda antiga.

Des collègues de bureau perdent la tête lors d'un voyage d'affaires. Une femme se jette dans les bras du meilleur ami de son mari. Un patron se rend ridicule avec sa secrétaire. Celle-ci séduit, au passage, le laveur de carreaux. Tous, cependant, ignorent le pourquoi de leurs comportement amoureux.Et vous ? Saviez-vous que 10% des enfants ne sont pas engendrés par leur père présumé ? Que 1% seulement des spermatozoïdes sont fertiles, les autres étant destinés à combattre tout envahisseur ? Que le mucus vaginal constitue un filtre préférentiel ? Que l'infidélité est propice à l'orgasme, qu'une femme concevra plus facilement lors d'un adultère ? Ou encore que la mastur- bation, la frigidité, la bisexualité, l'omosexualité sont aussi des stratégies de reproduction ?Telles sont, parmi d'autres, les révélations qui accompagnent la théorie novatrice de Robin Baker : les origines de l'humanité déterminent notre sexualité quotidienne; conjugal, mondain ou libertin, exotique, amoral ou criminel, le sexe est gouverné par les guerres ancestrales pour la survie et la perpétuation de l'espèce, la rivalité des mâles, le pouvoir de sélection des femelles. Et l'histoire, des scénarios exemplaires, parfois crus, toujours éclairants, illustrent ces découvertes fondamentales appelées à bouleverser les mentalités. Nul doute que chacun s'y reconnaîtra.Robin Baker est biologiste, spécialiste de l'évolution à l'université de Manchester.

In this ground-breaking study, Robin Baker investigates the contribution ancient Mesopotamian theology made to the origins of Christianity. Drawing on a formidable range of primary sources, Baker's conclusions challenge the widely held opinion that the theological imprint of Babylonia and Assyria on the New Testament is minimal, and what Mesopotamian legacy it contains was mediated by the Hebrew Bible and ancient Jewish sources. After evaluating and substantially supplementing previous research on this mediation, Baker demonstrates significant direct Mesopotamian influence on the New Testament presentation of Jesus and particularly the character of his kingship. He also identifies likely channels of transmission. Baker documents substantial differences among New Testament authors in borrowing Mesopotamian conceptions to formulate their Christology. This monograph is an essential resource for specialists and students of the New Testament as well as for scholars interested in religious transmission in the ancient Near East and the afterlife of Mesopotamian culture.

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