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Christian Göldenboog on the pre- and post-history of the book Various reviewers identified a confusing and complicated structure of the book. Excerpts from the chapter on imprint, chillingly titled - I know what I'm talking about - war in the womb show why this is indeed the case. In addition, John Maynard-Smith revisited Luigi Cavalli-Sforza revisited reviews by Manuela Lenzen, Diemut Kärner and Joachim Bessing, among others, are available here: This theory also answers the question of the benefits of men: "Regarding the future continued existence of my own sex within I feel much more comfortable with the human species now. After all, you can tell people that we men are needed for our health," Göldenboog quotes evolutionary researcher Hamilton as saying: Manuela Lenzen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Admittedly, Göldenboog rarely makes such blunders. In general he appears to be very well read. Although he adopts a deliberately casual conversational tone, he often inundates his readers with a flood of details - including the associated technical jargon. Not only in his interviews with prominent scientists, from which he likes to quote in detail, there are some hard-to-digest passages: The offended Eros will take revenge! - Diemut Klarner, Süddeutsche Zeitung Not a novel, not even a book of poems: a non-fiction book, well-written. The author, Christian Göldenboog, is a champagne expert in his main job, was a shot putter and film critic and, in his own words, practices "cheerful science". In the combination of stimulants, weight training and cultural assets, the meaning of sex is also described quite accurately. Who wants to ask about the purpose of the maneuver? "Why Sex?" presents a beneficial counter-position: for a change, it is not about fertility as a people's duty; and unlike Schirrmacher, the author does not condemn all those women who find a life with sex but without children appealing: Joachim Bessing, Berliner Morgenpost Christian Göldenboog has completely different problems. "Why sex?" is the short and provocative name of the new work by the author of "The Hole in the Whale. The Philosophy of Biology", and because Göldenboog is a gifted explainer, he doesn't leave us alone with the question that we are already dealing with Generations of ethicists and geneticists who have rubbed brain cells raw. The erotic thriller under the non-fiction titles of the summer: Ira Panic, book journal The interesting and new thing about the book that has just been published is that the author takes into account the relatively new findings from the analyzes of the human genome and the cloning experiments. This also makes the book interesting for readers who have already dealt with the subject in more detail. Especially since the author, who also works as a journalist and has surprisingly made a name for himself as a champagne connoisseur, goes very far into the depths of the biological basis of heredity in these sections of the book: Christine Westerhaus, Deutschlandfunk Kultur Göldenboog exclusively refers to male authorities, and in too many places the tone of an academic men's get-together prevails: Thomas P. Weber, Spectrum of Science Recent theories are based on new insights into the production and fusion of the egg and sperm. Göldenboog describes it verbosely, but a few explanatory illustrations would certainly have done the complex matter good. After the last line of the humorous book, you will definitely be amazed at how complicated the most important thing in the world is: Karin Hollricher, Bild der Wissenschaft Göldenboog takes up many aspects of sexual reproduction and illustrates them with examples from the animal kingdom. "Eggs are expensive, sperm are cheap" - this is how he names a chapter in which he discusses sexual selection. Here, for example, the reader is told that roosters are equipped with combs, which the hen can use to judge whether there are offspring from wants the rooster in question: Susanne Valentin, das netzmagazin.ch Christian Göldenboog's otherwise entertaining and original book also suffers from this complexity.Towards the end, when it comes to genetic diversity, sexuality and race and when it comes to the question of why there are just as many men as women, it becomes easier: Judith Rauch, Psychology Today Some of the discussions with the experts are reproduced verbatim and are not always easy to understand.The confusion of different arguments grows as you read. Luckily, Christian Göldenboog keeps relaxing with casual remarks: Michael Lange, WDR 5 What would happen if all those people who carried defective genes were prevented from reproducing? For the supporters of eugenics, the answer is obvious: Sooner or later hereditary diseases would no longer exist. However, the science journalist Christian Göldenboog and the geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza he interviewed came to a completely different conclusion: Frank Ufen, Frankfurter Rundschau Further information on the book, including in the platform for sexual education, Fit for Fun, ekz information service
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