Abstract
Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Today, anyone who accepts the facts of Darwinian evolution is also, by definition, a sociobiologist—in the sense that we must also accept that our reproductive behavior, like the anatomy of our gait or the neurophysiology of our retina, has been finely tuned by natural selection to perform in a certain way. We test drugs on baboons, have a common blood group with rhesus monkeys and almost certainly caught HIV infection from some other primate. We smile in greeting and touch one another for reassurance. What can biology tell us about human reproductive behavior and family planning?
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Potts, M. (1988). Reproductive Behavior and Family Planning. In: Runnebaum, B., Rabe, T., Kiesel, L. (eds) Female Contraception. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73790-9_1
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