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100 1 $aPrum, Richard O.
245 14$aThe evolution of beauty :$bhow Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us /$cRichard O. Prum.
250 $aFirst Anchor Books edition.
260 $aNew York :$bAnchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,$c2018.
300 $a428 p. :$bill. (some color), map ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
520 $aWhat 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 abo
520 $aA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences--what Darwin termed the taste for the beautiful--create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what fe
650 0$aCourtship in animals.
650 0$aHuman evolution.
650 0$aSexual selection in animals.
650 0$aSexual selection.