The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us (Record no. 296448)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780385537216
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 591.562 PRU-E
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Personal name Richard O. Prum
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Doubleday
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 428 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- 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 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 beauty and the role of mate choice, thereby transforming our ancestors from typical infanticidal primates into socially intelligent, pair-bonding caregivers. Prum's book is an exhilarating tour de force that begins in the trees and ends by fundamentally challenging how we understand human evolution and ourselves
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sexual selection in animals. Sexual selection. Courtship in animals.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 18/09/2017 3 1 591.562 PRU-E DCB3162 10/05/2022 18/01/2022 18/09/2017 Book