The evolution of beauty : how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the natural world-- and us
(2017)
By:
Prum, Richard O.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
591.562/PRUM,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, 2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
428 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385537216, 0385537212, 9780385537216
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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