Emily Willingham is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology, both after taking a bachelor's degree in English literature. She is coauthor of The Informed Parent- A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Aeon, Undark, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American.
This is a hilarious tour through a menagerie of dicks, and a ferocious guide to not being a dick yourself. --Ed Yong, New York Times Bestselling Author of I Contain Multitudes PHALLACY is both smart and smart-ass, serious and startling--and it will make you reconsider your ideas about sexual balance of power in ways both satisfying and important. --Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of The New York Times Bestselling Author of The Poison Squad PHALLACY is Dr. Emily Willingham's detailed, insightful, and funny cross-species biography of the penis. It's an entertaining romp that is as much about evolution as it is about emotion and egos. It shines a light on how we became so penis-centric and the resulting repercussions for science, society, and sex. --Jen Gunter, MD, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Vagina Bible