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The Red Queen. Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

By Matt Ridley

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2003
ISBN
0060556579, 9780060556570
LCC
GN365.9 .R53 2003
Open Library ID
OL25128211M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2065882 bytes)
Volume
Volume 3
Pages
369\369
Library
Great Science Textbooks
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass , a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. Brilliantly written, The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.

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