SEX ON EARTH

Sex marks the spot in this playful and at times hilarious book on the creation of new life. Celebrating the wonders and peculiarities of animal reproduction, Jules Howard has interviewed scientists and experts in the field of sex and journeys into a world of showy displays, suspicious rivalry, romantic courtship and devious tactics featuring sperm wars, virgin births, cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and the occasional booby-trapped vagina. With a cast of ducks, dolphins and dragonflies, slugs and salamanders, sticklebacks, spiders and more, we are taken on a voyage through the ins and outs of animal reproduction, the story of sex on Earth. As spring springs, birds sing, flowers bloom, lions roar and fireflies flash, a trillion sperm battle, block and tackle. 272pp, line art.