The Evolution of Beauty : : how Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Natural World-- and us
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Darwin's really dangerous idea -- Beauty happens -- Manakin dances -- Aesthetic innovation and decadence -- Make way for duck sex -- Beauty from the beast -- Bromance before romance -- Human beauty happens too -- Pleasure happens -- The Lysistrata effect -- The queering of Homo sapiens -- The aesthetic view of life.
What can explain the incredible diversity of beauty in nature? Richard O. Prum, an award-winning ornithologist, discusses Charles Darwin's second and long-neglected theory--aesthetic mate choice--and what it means for our understanding of evolution. In addition, Prum connects those same evolutionary dynamics to the origins and diversity of human sexuality, offering riveting new thinking about the evolution of human beauty and the role of mate choice, thereby transforming our ancestors from typical infanticidal primates into socially intelligent, pair-bonding caregivers. Prum's book is an exhilarating tour de fource that begins in the trees and ends by fundamentally challenging how we understand human evolution and ourselves. -- adapted from book jacket.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385537216
0385537212
SUBJECTS
Sexual selection in animals.
Sexual selection.
Mate selection.
Courtship in animals.
Human evolution.