Sex is best when you lose your head
James Meek, 16 November 2000
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict
by Tim Birkhead.
Faber, 272 pp., £9.99, May 2000,0 571 19360 9 Show More
by Tim Birkhead.
Faber, 272 pp., £9.99, May 2000,
“... and their pictures over the pages of the science journals. It doesn’t always work out. Fiona Hunter and a colleague, later to expose what the mainstream media dubbed ‘penguin prostitution’ in the Antarctic, once watched a colony of fulmars on Fair Isle for 56 days on the trot, 18 hours a day, only to find the species relatively faithful: a mere 16 ... ”