• Donald Symons (born 1942) was an American anthropologist best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of...
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  • The Evolution of Human Sexuality (category Books by Donald Symons)
    Sexuality is a 1979 book about human sexuality by the anthropologist Donald Symons, in which the author discusses topics such as human sexual anatomy,...
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    in a sexual selection based on the evolutionary psychology. In 1979, Donald Symons first proposed this evolutionary explanation, suggesting that the evolving...
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  • Symons is a surname which may refer to: A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), English author Arthur Symons (1865–1945), English poet Elaine Symons (born 1974)...
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    While Miller stated that male scientists such as Stephen Jay Gould and Donald Symons "have viewed the female clitoral orgasm as an evolutionary side-effect...
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  • care—typically peaks later than a female’s)". Brown's major source for this is Donald Symons, himself an armchair anthropologist who did not perform any actual fieldwork...
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    implications for female sexual behavior and sexual evolution," others, such as Donald Symons and Stephen Jay Gould, have asserted that the clitoris is vestigial...
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  • 37 cultures across six continents and five islands. Buss expands on Donald Symons' The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1979) by examining all the actions...
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  • highly controversial maxim (sometimes associated with a paraphrase of Donald Symons) that sexuality is "something that women have and men want". Baumeister...
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  • There ought to be a better, shorter word—but "selfish" isn't it." Donald Symons also finds it inappropriate to use anthropomorphism in conveying scientific...
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