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Evolution of beauty: how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world and us/

Prum, Richard O.

Evolution of beauty: how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world and us/ [by] Richard O. Prum - New York: Anchor Books, c2017 - 428 p. : ill.(some col.); 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.


What can explain the incredible diversity of beauty in nature? Richard O. Prum, an award-winning ornithologist, discusses Charles Darwin's second and long-neglected theory--aesthetic mate choice--and what it means for our understanding of evolution. In addition, Prum connects those same evolutionary dynamics to the origins and diversity of human sexuality, offering riveting new thinking about the evolution of human.

9780345804570 (pbk.): Rs. 499.00 = BIOLOGY

2016050808


Sexual selection in animals.
Sexual selection.
Courtship in animals.
Human evolution.
Biology

591.562 / PRUM/E