SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER: Great egrets (Ardea alba) perform elaborate courtship dances, displaying the long, lacy plumage that almost spelled their undoing before legislation protected them from hunting in the early 20th century.© ANDREA WESTMORELAND/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
—E.O. Wilson, Harvard University evolutionary biologist, in his 1978 book, On Human Nature
—Amy Muise, a researcher at the University of Toronto Mississauga, speaking to the Daily Mail about her recently published study, which found that couples who engage in postcoital cuddling report having better relationships (May 27)
—Gareth Leng, University of Edinburgh physiologist, speaking at this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival about recent research revealing that not eating for six hours can change who men and women find attractive (June 5)
—British physician and sexuality researcher Havelock Ellis, in the preface to Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (1897)
—Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
—Renowned sexologist Alfred Kinsey, in a 1966 Time magazine essay ...
