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Related reading: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
Not sure if they are all in or from there, but I am strongly reminded of Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Species
For books, I really appreciate:
OR a similar Biostatistics book. Note the above book is on one of the author's course webpages for free.
My favorite book about the evolution of sex is Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation. https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Tatianas-Sex-Advice-Creation/dp/0805063323
This book is used in college biology classes. Most of it is about invertebrate reproduction, but told in an engaging and funny way. Chock full of ideas for how aliens might do it, I'd think.
https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Tatianas-Sex-Advice-Creation/dp/0805063323
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the book Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation for this post. Good read if you want to know more about the crazy things animals do for sex!
I am confident because this is my field of expertise, and I'll do my best to explain what we know about humans, lions, and other species.
Humans are able to constantly be ready to breed, unlike other animals. Lions go into heat to be ready for breeding. If a female has a cub, she will not cycle. When a new male enters the area, he will often commit infanticide to START the cycling for her. She was in a suspended state - not already cycling.
It appears that in some cases, the presence of the new male will start the cycling even without the infanticide - perhaps as a measure that has evolved over time through natural selection. If the female is ready to mate, then the male might not bother killing her young, and will let those genes of hers pass on. Thus promoting lions that can go into heat with pheromonal stimulation through the vomeronasal organ (your secondary olfactory sense, or jacobson's organ).
Humans do not go into heat. Once they are cycling, there are a few ways to alter the cycle:
FROM
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/579.full
"In addition to pregnancy loss, other factors that influence the length and regularity of the menstrual cycle include: energy balance (Ellison, 1990), lactation (Howie and McNeilly, 1982), and stress (Wasser and Barash, 1983). The menstrual cycle also changes as a function of age (Treloar et al., 1967). In the largest study to date, the median cycle length was 27.8 days at age 20 years (close to the mean age for the women in the dormitory studies) and the difference between the 10th and 90th percentiles for person–year SD was 6.3 days (Treloar et al., 1967). At 36 years, the age when cycle length variability reaches a minimum, the median cycle length was 26.6 days and the difference between the two percentiles was 3.6 days."
If you've seen the idea that women sync their cycles? Human women? based on bad stats from poor research which didn't take into account this natural variability of human women's cycles.
SO! In conclusion, while you have some anecdotal evidence that sex is causing menses in your ladies - it's not true, and lots of people have studied this to see if it happens because
it happens in other animals which are NOT constant breeders. In mice, there are a few things related to cycling and male scent - the first we call it the 'Bruce Effect'. You can introduce just the scent of a new male mouse in early pregnancy and she will spontaneously abort (to prevent infanticide). The second is the 'Lee Boot Effect' where female mice WILL synchronize their cycles when housed together without a male. and the third is the Whitten effect where you can induce estrus in mice with the scent of a male.
https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Mouse_Estrous_Cycle
Now you know so much about humans! and Lions! and Mice! I'm happy to talk more about science if you want, if you're looking to learn more about mating and science, I found This book to be very informative and entertaining.
Here is a fun book to introduce you to the sex aspect of evo-devo: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. It explains human behavior by talking about other forms of life (plants, fungi, bacteria, other animals, and so on). It also has some funny quotes that I really hope are real (one is supposedly Churchill giving sex advice to his sons). My bio teacher lent me it to read in high school.
Seriously though, if two people meet, talk for a few hours, then have sex and aren't interested in trying to date after, they probably wouldn't have worked out anyway if they waited until date 5 to get into bed.
Edit: I wonder if there is interest in an r/OkC book club, Dr. Tatiana would be a good one, and I could use the excuse to buy the kindle edition to re-read it.
Awesome!
After reading Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, the blue weevil beetle became a part of my internet identity \^j\^
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805063323/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QbzlDbZBYCQP6
Anything by Mary Roach, for example:
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393348741/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vdzlDb8KHDG5K