Uncover the two-billion-year history of sex, from its origins in early organisms to its impact on modern humanity. This book explores the evolution of sexual reproduction, sexual differentiation, and the enduring influence of our ancient sexual systems on contemporary society, even amid evolving gender expressions and sexual orientations. Interesting, thorough, and informative, this book is a good overview for a professional and a lay audience.

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Hmmm I didn’t really enjoy this. I didn’t feel like I learnt much and the writing style was boring it’s a no from me

The Other Big Bang is written by a professor of biology who specialises in evolutionary and developmental biology. The book is about the history and hence the evolution of sex, and hence the title.
This is a non-fiction (scientific, academic, nuanced, and appealing to a niche) book written by one of the top scientists in this field hence I had to pick this up.
Haag starts each chapter with a synopsis, which I found extremely useful. These synopses, and the anecdotes, examples and questions in mostly the beginnings of the chapters allowed me to feel more confident in my comprehension and prepared my for the next paragraphs. I am no expert in this field, yet Haag's writing is encouraging and I finished the book (took me a good while to read it, I average a 150-page fiction book a day) with a better understanding of the evolution of sex. Interestingly, upon reflection, I found the chapters on organisms, which took me longer to grasp, to be the most interesting ones.

This is a great resource and an invaluable addition to the scholarship about the evolution of sex. I recommend it to everyone interested in science, evolution, sex and students and scholars of biology.