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The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us

Prum, Richard O. (author.).

Summary: What can explain the incredible diversity of beauty in nature? A celebrated Yale ornithologist turns to a neglected idea of Darwin's for answers and transfroms the way we understand sex, pleaure, and evolution itself.

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ISBN: 9780385537216
ISBN: 0385537212
ISBN: 9780345804570
Physical Description: 428 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Darwin's Really Dangerous Idea 17 -- Chapter 2 Beauty Happens 54 -- Chapter 3 Manakin Dances 89 -- Chapter 4 Aesthetic Innovation and Decadence 121 -- Chapter 5 Make Way for Duck Sex 149 -- Chapter 6 Beauty from the Beast 182 -- Chapter 7 Bromance Before Romance 206 -- Chapter 8 Human Beauty Happens Too 226 -- Chapter 9 Pleasure Happens 263 -- Chapter 10 Lysistrata Effect 280 -- Chapter 11 Queering of Homo sapiens 303 -- Chapter 12 This Aesthetic View of Life 320.