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Prum, Richard O.
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Sexual selection in animals.
Sexual selection.
Mate selection.
Courtship in animals.
Human evolution.
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Prum, Richard O.
Sexual selection in animals.
Sexual selection.
Mate selection.
Courtship in animals.
Human evolution.
MARC Display
The
evolution
of
beauty
:
how
Darwin
's
forgotten
theory
of
mate
choice
shapes
the
animal
world--
and
us
/ Richard O. Prum.
by
Prum, Richard O.
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, 2017.
Call #:
591.562 P971e
Subjects
Sexual selection in animals.
Sexual selection.
Mate
selection.
Courtship in animals.
Human
evolution
.
ISBN:
9780385537216 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-404) 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 -- This aesthetic view of life.
Summary:
"What can explain the incredible diversity of
beauty
in nature? Ornithologist Richard O. Prum discusses Charles
Darwin
's second and long-neglected
theory
- aesthetic
mate
choice
- and what it means for our understanding of
evolution
. Prum connects those same evolutionary dynamics to the origins and diversity of human sexuality, offering 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. An exhilarating tour de force that begins in the trees and ends by fundamentally challenging
how
we understand human
evolution
and ourselves. Richard O. Prum is a professor of ornithology at Yale University."--Provided by publisher.
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