The Female Turn How Evolutionary Science Shifted Perceptions About Females Malin Ahking by Malin Ah-king 9789811971600, 9811971609 instant download after payment.

coy, passive, elusive, noncompetitive and sexually reserved,1 in line with societal ideologies about women. In 1871, when the founder of evolu tionary biology, Charles Darwin, presented his theory of sexual selection (the struggle for mates), a theory to explain evolution of sex differences, he described females as generally coy and passive in sexual encounters. Males, on the other hand, he depicted as active and competing for females through combat among themselves and by charming females with their appearances and songs. Yet animal females choose male mates (but in a rather passive and reluctant way), Darwin was steadfast on this point until his death. According to Darwin, they were the less eager sex, “coy, and may often be seen endeavouring for a long time to escape from the male”. Furthermore, a female accepts not the male that attracts her the most, but “the one which is the least distasteful”