The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Natural World-- by Richard O. Prum

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Natural World--

Richard O. Prum

13 hours, 39 minutes first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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. In the great halls of science, dogma holds th...

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