Robin Baker Books

Headlines bring news of the latest health scare, with worrying predictions for where developments in science will takes us. We want and need to understand the phenomena that influence our lives, but science is often more subtle and more complicated than the headlines would suggest. Over a diverse range of subjects, Robin Baker shows that the science we as consumers believe to be true is often an oversimplification - a convenient way of explaining complex subjects which are little understood. His investigations reach their own, startling conclusions. Could it be possible, for example, that using sun screen is actually increasing our chance of skin cancer? More and more people are taking Prozac, but does science have an easy answer to explain why? We all know the arguments in favour of conservation, but could there be strong biological arguements against it?

The classic work on the rules of sex, still as provocative as the day it was published, updated for a new generation.

Forse non tutti sanno che: - il 10% dei bambini sono allevati da un uomo che non è il loro padre genetico, anche se crede di esserlo; - meno dell'1% degli spermatozoi eiaculati da un uomo è in grado di fecondare l'ovulo; il rimanente 99% serve solo a ingaggiare guerre sessuali con spermatozoi di altri uomini; - un uomo e una donna, che si trovino nel deserto o in una modernissima città, avranno da due a tremila rapporti sessuali in tutta la loro vita; - raramente le scappatelle vengono scoperte e anche i tradimenti di lunga durata hanno solo il 50% di probabilità di essere smascherati. Guerre sessuali è il risultato di anni di rigorose ricerche e ci aiuta a comprendere il nostro comportamento sessuale nella sua complesità e, a volte, apparente perversità.

This controversial new view of human sexuality has stimulated heated debate around the world by suggesting that much of our sexual behavior is driven by imperatives hard-wired into us through an evolutionary competition the author calls "the sperm war". Robin Baker contends that sex, for humans, is a battleground upon which an unconscious evolutionary conflict takes place.

By exploring the Eastern influences on early Christology, this work challenges traditional views of the New Testament's origins. It connects the dots between the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East scholarship with the study of the New Testament and early Christianity, presenting a comprehensive understanding of how these cultural and religious interactions shaped early Christian thought.