Abstract
Darwin published The Origin of the Species in 1859. Today, anyone who accepts the facts of Darwinian evolution is also, by definition, a sociobiologist — in the sense that we must also accept that our reproductive behavior, like the anatomy of our gait or the neurophysiology of our retina, has been finely tuned by natural selection to perform in a certain way.
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Potts, M. (1988). Reproductive Behavior and Family Planning. In: Eicher, W., Kokott, G., Vogt, HJ., Herms, V., Wille, R. (eds) Sexology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73794-7_1
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