PositiveThe Times (UK)Even since the advent of sex, asexual reproduction has stuck around ... So why don’t we all just clone ourselves? ... It is questions like these that drive Lixing Sun’s fascinating, accessible study of how sex shapes and underpins our lives ... Sun, who is a distinguished research professor at Central Washington University, acknowledges that \'biological conflict is overlaid with the powerful influences of culture, law and ethics\'. But he also argues that people might get plastic surgery, cheat on their partners or commit sexual violence because of an evolutionary impulse ... Explanations of human nature are better left to other disciplines ... When it sticks to the science this is an enlightening study.
RaveNew ScientistCompelling ... Slaght, who has spent decades here himself, is a wonderful guide, his descriptions of this unique landscape bristling with detail and feeling. As I read, I ached to be there ... We become as wedded to the fortunes of the cats...as we do to the people who have dragged them back from the brink ... A timely reminder of what collaboration across borders can achieve.
