- Sexual selection in animals, Courtship in animals, Sexual selection, Human evolution
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.
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Earnest, contemporary, spare and classical in form.
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- Author
- Richard O. Prum
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 438
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Doubleday, Anchor
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345804570
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