A Little Gay Natural History

A Little Gay Natural History
Price: £9.99
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Pop this gem of a book in your bag and you'll almost want to be stuck on a bus so there's time to read it.

Packed with colourful imagery and fascinating insight, A Little Gay Natural History celebrates the astonishing diversity of sexual behaviour, biology and reproduction found in nature. Or, as Stephen Fry describes it, A very welcome slap on the wrist for those who claim that same-sex love, intimacy and bonding are unnatural. Josh Davis's splendid book will be a most useful settler of arguments and silencer of bigots.

Davis considers how, in both animals and plants, sexual reproduction and determination rely on a complex interaction between genes, hormones, environment and chance. Meet turtles whose sex is set by the incubation temperature of their eggs and a butterfly that embodies male and female biological tissue.

He also reveals behaviours in nature that have previously been covered up and explain how same-sex courtship is more widespread than many realise - encouraging readers to rethink any assumptions. Expect to be informed, surprised and entertained.

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