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The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the natural world-- and us
- Title
- The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the natural world-- and us / Richard O. Prum.
- Author
- Prum, Richard O.
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- 428 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- A "reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences--what Darwin termed 'the taste for the beautiful'--create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world"--Amazon.com.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7910
- ISBN
- 9780385537216 (alk. paper)
- 0385537212 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2016050808
- OCLC
- 984747370
- Author
- Prum, Richard O., author.
- Title
- The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the natural world-- and us / Richard O. Prum.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7910