An Exclusive Evolver Event: Christopher Ryan: "Sex at Dawn" & The Orgiastic Roots of Human Sexuality

Since Darwin’s day, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has long maintained that men and women evolved in nuclear families where a man’s possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity. In "Sex at Dawn," renegade researcher Christopher Ryan debunks almost everything we think we know about monogamy by demonstrating that our promiscuous past haunts our modern-day struggles with commitment. Are monogamous relationships and human nature at odds with one another? Why is sexuality such a fertile source of conflict in our lives, with long-term fidelity so difficult for so many? What does the human body reveal about the origins of human sexuality?