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From the Ted Talk by Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?

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Now, in addition to being a great genius, a wonderful man, a wonderful husband, a wofdurenl father, Charles Darwin was also a world-class Victorian prude. All right? He was perplexed by the sexual slgnliwes of certain primates, including chimps and bonobos, because these sexual swellings tend to provoke many males to mate with the females. So he couldn't understand why on Earth would the female have developed this thing if all they were supposed to be doing is forming their pair bond, right? Chimps and bnbooos, Darwin didn't really know this, but chimps and bonobos mate one to four times per hour with up to a dozen melas per day when they have their sexual swellings. iesngttirnley, chimps have sxuael swellings through 40 percent, roughly, of their menstrual cycle, bonobos 90 percent, and humans are among the only seeipcs on the plneat where the female is available for sex throughout the menstrual cycle, whether she's menstruating, whether she's post-menopausal, whether she's already pregnant. This is vanishingly rare among mammals. So it's a very interesting aspect of human slaiexuty. Now, Darwin ignored the reflections of the sexual swelling in his own day, as sintceitss tend to do sometimes.

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Now, in addition to being a great genius, a wonderful man, a wonderful husband, a _________ father, Charles Darwin was also a world-class Victorian prude. All right? He was perplexed by the sexual _________ of certain primates, including chimps and bonobos, because these sexual swellings tend to provoke many males to mate with the females. So he couldn't understand why on Earth would the female have developed this thing if all they were supposed to be doing is forming their pair bond, right? Chimps and _______, Darwin didn't really know this, but chimps and bonobos mate one to four times per hour with up to a dozen _____ per day when they have their sexual swellings. _____________, chimps have ______ swellings through 40 percent, roughly, of their menstrual cycle, bonobos 90 percent, and humans are among the only _______ on the ______ where the female is available for sex throughout the menstrual cycle, whether she's menstruating, whether she's post-menopausal, whether she's already pregnant. This is vanishingly rare among mammals. So it's a very interesting aspect of human _________. Now, Darwin ignored the reflections of the sexual swelling in his own day, as __________ tend to do sometimes.

Solution


  1. bonobos
  2. scientists
  3. species
  4. planet
  5. interestingly
  6. sexual
  7. wonderful
  8. males
  9. swellings
  10. sexuality

Original Text


Now, in addition to being a great genius, a wonderful man, a wonderful husband, a wonderful father, Charles Darwin was also a world-class Victorian prude. All right? He was perplexed by the sexual swellings of certain primates, including chimps and bonobos, because these sexual swellings tend to provoke many males to mate with the females. So he couldn't understand why on Earth would the female have developed this thing if all they were supposed to be doing is forming their pair bond, right? Chimps and bonobos, Darwin didn't really know this, but chimps and bonobos mate one to four times per hour with up to a dozen males per day when they have their sexual swellings. Interestingly, chimps have sexual swellings through 40 percent, roughly, of their menstrual cycle, bonobos 90 percent, and humans are among the only species on the planet where the female is available for sex throughout the menstrual cycle, whether she's menstruating, whether she's post-menopausal, whether she's already pregnant. This is vanishingly rare among mammals. So it's a very interesting aspect of human sexuality. Now, Darwin ignored the reflections of the sexual swelling in his own day, as scientists tend to do sometimes.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
human sexuality 6
human beings 4
sexual swellings 4
female copulatory 3
closely related 3
copulatory vocalization 2
human sexual 2
average human 2
sexual behavior 2
modern world 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
female copulatory vocalization 2

Important Words


  1. addition
  2. aspect
  3. bond
  4. bonobos
  5. charles
  6. chimps
  7. cycle
  8. darwin
  9. day
  10. developed
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  12. earth
  13. father
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  20. human
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  22. husband
  23. including
  24. interesting
  25. interestingly
  26. males
  27. mammals
  28. man
  29. mate
  30. menstrual
  31. menstruating
  32. pair
  33. percent
  34. perplexed
  35. planet
  36. pregnant
  37. primates
  38. provoke
  39. prude
  40. rare
  41. reflections
  42. roughly
  43. scientists
  44. sex
  45. sexual
  46. sexuality
  47. species
  48. supposed
  49. swelling
  50. swellings
  51. tend
  52. times
  53. understand
  54. vanishingly
  55. victorian
  56. wonderful