Robin Baker

This controversial new view of human sexuality has stimulated heated debate around the world by suggesting that much of our sexual behavior is driven by imperatives hard-wired into us through an evolutionary competition the author calls "the sperm war". Robin Baker contends that sex, for humans, is a battleground upon which an unconscious evolutionary conflict takes place.

Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles

Sperm Wars

Primal

Wojny dziecięce. Macierzyństwo, ojcostwo i waśnie rodzinne

The Science of Sex

Liz Oram

Science of Parenting

Baby Wars

A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death.... And a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. In this darkly comic, slow-burn thriller, reality is blurred... nothing can be taken for granted. A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death.... And a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. Sometimes, redemption lies in the darkest of places.A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death.... And a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. In this darkly comic, slow-burn thriller, reality is blurred... nothing can be taken for granted. A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death.... And a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. Sometimes, redemption lies in the darkest of places.A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death.... And a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. In this darkly comic, slow-burn thriller, reality is blurred... nothing can be taken for granted. A gripping and poignant black comedy about love, friendship, booze, morality, death.... And a generation's casual dissatisfaction with modern life. Sometimes, redemption lies in the darkest of places.

Killing Richard Dawson

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.

A thrilling black comedy about making the best of what little time we have left - with vampires! And genocide! A twisted tale about Feng Shui, vampires, drinking, pet psychiatry, genocide, belief and mortality. In this darkly comic, slow-burn fantasy thriller, nothing is as it seems. A nightclub opening becomes a fight for life and the discovered fountain of youth hides a movement to exterminate a race. Chasing the Sun’s twenty-something protagonist and narrator, Honda, is a disgruntled, cocaine-addicted con man posing as a Feng Shui expert. He’s also a vampire. His nightclub loving friends are also vampires, apart from a single mother, Rain. When Rain dies, Honda is the only one left to care for her young daughter Dip who brings him face to face with his mortality, and morality, as he tries to protect her. A thrilling black comedy about making the best of what little time we have left - with vampires! And genocide! A twisted tale about Feng Shui, vampires, drinking, pet psychiatry, genocide, belief and mortality. In this darkly comic, slow-burn fantasy thriller, nothing is as it seems. A nightclub opening becomes a fight for life and the discovered fountain of youth hides a movement to exterminate a race. Chasing the Sun’s twenty-something protagonist and narrator, Honda, is a disgruntled, cocaine-addicted con man posing as a Feng Shui expert. He’s also a vampire. His nightclub loving friends are also vampires, apart from a single mother, Rain. When Rain dies, Honda is the only one left to care for her young daughter Dip who brings him face to face with his mortality, and morality, as he tries to protect her. A thrilling black comedy about making the best of what little time we have left - with vampires! And genocide! A twisted tale about Feng Shui, vampires, drinking, pet psychiatry, genocide, belief and mortality. In this darkly comic, slow-burn fantasy thriller, nothing is as it seems. A nightclub opening becomes a fight for life and the discovered fountain of youth hides a movement to exterminate a race. Chasing the Sun’s twenty-something protagonist and narrator, Honda, is a disgruntled, cocaine-addicted con man posing as a Feng Shui expert. He’s also a vampire. His nightclub loving friends are also vampires, apart from a single mother, Rain. When Rain dies, Honda is the only one left to care for her young daughter Dip who brings him face to face with his mortality, and morality, as he tries to protect her.

Chasing the Sun

Exploding the happy family myth: a controversial new look at why we're destined to family fighting. Why is a baby's cry such a stressful sound? Why do brothers and sisters fight so often? Why do teenagers rebel? Why can family life be so difficult? The answers, say the authors of Baby Wars, have more to do with our own genetic survival than a dysfunctional psyche. Baby Wars explodes the vision of the nuclear family once and for all, revealing the conflicts simmering beneath the surface of even the happiest households. While we consciously crave the ideal of quiet and calm family life, forces within us are furiously at war: fatherhood, motherhood, nurturing and care. Beneath these deeply human instincts lies another even deeper one - the will to guarantee our own genetic survival - at the expense of those whom we love and cherish. In his previous book, Sperm Wars, Robin Baker, an evolutionary biologist, showed the day-to-day Darwinism of our sex lives in a series of fascinating, instantly recognizable fictional situations. Here, he and his partner, Elizabeth Oram, do the same for parenthood, discovering how our instinct to survive results in competitive behaviors that deeply affect family harmony. Highly provocative, yet profoundly persuasive, Baby Wars strips away the layers of contemporary family life, exposing the genetic reasons for its everyday foibles - and its darkest secrets. A compelling read for anyone who has ever wondered if their family life is "normal," Baby Wars delivers some unforgettable answers.

Parenthood and Family Strife

Elizabeth Oram

Explodes the nuclear family once and for all, revealing the unacknowledged conflicts at the heart of even the happiest households. Fatherhood, motherhood, nurturing and care -- beneath these deep human instincts lies another that is still deeper -- the will to ensure our own genetic survival at the expense of others. From a series of instantly recognizable everyday fictional situations, Baby Wars finds a comparable competition at work within the family. It combines the most up-to-date understanding of the mechanism of reproduction with an unrivaled eye for the complexities -- and apparent perversities -- of human behavior.

An evolutionary biologist's view of family life and family conflict argues that all human behavior is the result of genetics

The Dynamics of Family Conflict

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.

First published in 1998, Baby Wars was the second title in a controversial trilogy of books which placed the past, present and future of human reproduction under the microscope of evolutionary biology. Baby Wars itself was focussed on parenthood and family strife, and attracted such international interest that it was translated into eight different languages. This digital English edition, with a new Preface by the authors, was released in 2017 to celebrate the book's upcoming 20th anniversary.Neither childhood nor parenthood is easy and to a greater or lesser extent babies mean wars in all families. Some of these wars are subtle and physiological, hidden from the conscious mind. Others are obvious, even aggressive, and plain for all to see. Even the most tranquil of families can experience conflict, and for some life can become virtually a running battle. But, as Baby Wars shows, there is an evolutionary rationale behind all of this disharmony. It even emerges that without many of the conflicts most people would gain less than they do from their reproductive and family experience, a paradox that forms one of the major themes of the book.The book's format, a hallmark of the whole trilogy, is first to dramatise each topic as a fictionalised case-study, then to use the perspective of evolutionary biology to interpret the behaviour shown by the drama's main characters. Topics covered range from the commonplace (such as conception campaigns, pregnancy sickness, labour pains, sleepless nights, and grandparenthood) to the illegal (such as incest and child abuse). Apart from the new Preface and an occasional minor correction or clarification the 20th Anniversary edition is a faithful digital version of the original paperback. Yet, despite the years since it was written, this release of Baby Wars is as relevant now to the understanding of the evolved drivers of reproduction and parenthood as it was at the time of the first edition. None of the scientific interpretations in the original book have been superseded in the interim. Nor, naturally, has there been any change in those instincts of men, women and children that are at the book's heart. For anybody who wishes to understand why family life and strife has evolved to be as it is, rather than how many would like it to be, the answers can be found in Baby Wars' pages.

A Dialectological Investigation

The Development of the Komi Case System

Sans vêtements, sans abris, sans espoir d’être secourus: comment ont-ils survécu au versant obscur du paradis ? Un groupe de survivants nus et hagards est retrouvé un an après avoir disparu lors d’une expédition sur une île déserte du Pacifique. Toutes les femmes, sauf une, sont tombées enceintes et trois membres du groupe, dont le chef de l’expédition, sont présumés morts. Sous les feux des médias du monde entier, chacun des rescapés s’en tient à la même version, peu convaincante, des événements. Grâce à l’enquête de l’auteur, ce qui s’est véritablement passé sur l’île est enfin révélée – un scénario à la Sa Majesté des mouches, impressionnant de régression, de tribalisme et de meurtre. Mais peut-on pour autant en déduire que des forces plus monstrueuses sont à l’œuvre, qui confirment la théorie du chef de l’expédition, selon laquelle l’homme est le plus sauvage des animaux ? Traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Denyse Beaulieu

Provocative and often shocking, Sex in the Future examines how advances in reproductive technology will change human behavior. In-vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood could mean the end not only of infertility but also of the need for men and women to form relationships or for women to interrupt careers for pregnancy. Sperm and egg storage mean people can literally shop for genes, while cloning, egg-egg fertilization, and other techniques will lead to fertility on demand in a Reproduction Restaurant. What will all our choices be, and how far down this road do we want to travel?

Sex In The Future: The Reproductive Revolution and How it Will Change Us

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.

The Reproductive Revolution and how it Will Change Us

Sex in the Future

In Hollow Men, Robin Baker provides a reappraisal of the Book of Judges account of Israel's Settlement of Canaan. Written under Assyrian suzerainty in Manasseh’s reign, Judges is a theological commentary on the Settlement and an esoteric work of prophecy.

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