TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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 force that begins in the trees and ends by fundamentally challenging how we understand human evolution and ourselves. --
AU  - Prum, Richard O.,
CN  - QL761
CN  - QL761
ET  - First edition.
ID  - 801625
KW  - Sexual selection in animals.
KW  - Sexual selection.
KW  - Courtship in animals.
KW  - Human evolution.
N2  - 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 force that begins in the trees and ends by fundamentally challenging how we understand human evolution and ourselves. --
SN  - 9780385537216
SN  - 0385537212
SN  - 0385537220
SN  - 9780385537223
T1  - The evolution of beauty :how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us /
TI  - The evolution of beauty :how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us /
ER  -