![]() From there, she fast-forwards through the ages, pausing to look at phallic and fertility cults, the child-rearing techniques of our own and other species, and the development of the human face, which had its beginnings 350 million years ago in the ugly mug of a Crossopterygii, a lunged fish. ![]() So, it would come as no surprise if “A Natural History of Love” wins the hearts of readers as thoroughly as Ackerman’s best-selling 1990 book “A Natural History of the Senses.”Īckerman traces love and sex to their most ancient roots, to the one-celled organisms dancing in the organic soup of Earth’s primordial oceans. The sum total of those many parts is a book that is both absorbing and fascinating (a word, Ackerman informs us, that derives from the Latin fascinum, the image of an erect penis), a charmed marriage of style and substance. ![]()
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