Genuine Love in the Animal Kingdom W/Rebecca Coffey

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Biography - The Science Journalist (evolutionary psychology), humorist, and novelist Rebecca Coffey is a science journalist with broad national recognition. She contributes five features a month to Forbes.com, where she addresses evolution, science, health, and behavior. She has written regularly for Scientific American and Discover magazines, PsychologyToday.com, and Vermont Public Radio (where she was a frequent on-air contributor for almost a decade), and she also contributes science-informed op-eds to newspapers like The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, and to many radio and internet outlets. Coffey is also a humorist (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Defenestration, The Rumpus, a host of lit websites, and a book of literary humor) and a novelist (the highly praised, serio-comic Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story). Kirkus Reviews has likened Coffey to journalist and humorist Mary Roach. For The Audience: https://tinyurl.com/beyondprimatesbook Rebecca's new book BEYOND PRIMATES is a fun, fact-checked look at some of the mating, romance, and evolution mysteries of animals and humans. Do baby animals get to experience mother love, and how would that help them survive to adulthood? Why do some male spiders try to die after sex? What about yeast procreation would have surprised Darwin? Are human couples who claim to be monogamous but “cheat” acting … hmmm … like swans and seahorses? And how might Darwin’s own evolution-inspired romantic impulses have tripped him up a bit in his scientific reasoning? Kirkus Reviews called BEYOND PRIMATES "delightful." Charles Foster, author of the book BEING A BEAST, called BEYOND PRIMATES "A bracing gallop through some of the central issues of evolution. It will leave you exhilarated at this extraordinary wild world.