Far Side meets Dr. Ruth
What do you get when you cross a biology textbook, a Dr. Ruth show, a Dear Abby column, and a ?Far Side? cartoon? Well, the offspring might be a brilliantly original book named Dr. Tatiana?s Sex Advice to All Creation. This collection answers the desperate questions from species as varied as the Australian redback spider to the Louisiana black vulture with Dr. Tatiana?s practical, reassuring, detailed explanations. It seems the worry on everyone?s mind is, ?Am I normal??
Move over, Dr. Phil. Author Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist, award-winning science journalist, graduate of Stanford, and doctorate of Oxford University. Writing as Dr. Tatiana, Judson transforms both difficult scientific ideas and the sometimes-awkward discussion of the (ah-hem!) birds and the bees into accessible, often hilarious reading material. Evidently, virgin births, homosexuality, variety in size and shape of genitalia, elaborate courtship rituals, and cannibalism are not so unusual in nature as one may think. Dr. Tatiana gives her readers ? be they insect, animal or human ? a sigh of relief along with a much-needed chuckle at our own foibles as she explains, from her expert but kind perspective, why we do the things we do.
