The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780345804570ISBN-10:345804570UPC:9780345804570Book Category:Science, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, SexualityBook Topic:Evolution, ZoologySize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC7FM17YVQ
A major 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. "A delicious read, both seductive and mutinous.... Minutely detailed, exquisitely observant, deeply informed, and often tenderly sensual."--New York Times Book Review In the great halls of science,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780345804570ISBN-10:345804570UPC:9780345804570Book Category:Science, Health & FitnessBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, SexualityBook Topic:Evolution, ZoologySize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC7FM17YVQ
RICHARD O. PRUM is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He has conducted field work throughout the world, and has studied fossil theropod dinosaurs in China. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
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