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The Waves: The Truth About “Normal” Sex

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Sex Evolution and Sexual Dimorphism

There are a lot of biases and assumptions baked into the early natural sciences. And so a lot of things that people are very attached to as being like, just the way the world works, um, are really not. Ye, you try on this idea in the book. What if every creature started out queer, un like some of them somehow managed to narrow down their sex lives to this one, much narrower set of preferences? Ye. So there was a study that came out a few years ago that i talk about a fair bit in the book,. That i really loved, because it really is just a thought experiment. There is no way of proving this. But there's also no way

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