The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us / Richard O. Prum.
2017
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Title
The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us / Richard O. Prum.
Author
Prum, Richard O., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780385537216 (hardcover)
0385537212 (hardcover)
9780385537223
0385537220
9780385537223
0385537212 (hardcover)
9780385537223
0385537220
9780385537223
Published
New York : Doubleday, [2017]
Language
English
Description
428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Call Number
QL761 .P744 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
591.56/2
Summary
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. -- adapted from dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Evolution of beauty.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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
This aesthetic view of life.
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
This aesthetic view of life.