The Evolution of Beauty

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Richard O. Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He has conducted field work throughout the world, and has studied fossil theropod dinosaurs in China. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

出版者:Doubleday
作者:Richard O. Prum
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页数:448
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出版时间:2017-5-9
价格:USD 30.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780385537216
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  • 科普 
  • 进化论 
  • 非虚构 
  • 生物学 
  • 心理学 
  • 2017 
  • 英文 
  • 美国 
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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 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 features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?

Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum—reviving Darwin’s own views—thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to, selection for individual survival. To explain this, he dusts off Darwin’s long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons—for the mere pleasure of it—is an independent engine of evolutionary change.

Mate choice can drive ornamental traits from the constraints of adaptive evolution, allowing them to grow ever more elaborate. It also sets the stakes for sexual conflict, in which the sexual autonomy of the female evolves in response to male sexual control. Most crucially, this framework provides important insights into the evolution of human sexuality, particularly the ways in which female preferences have changed male bodies, and even maleness itself, through evolutionary time.

The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature’s splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves.

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这本书重新发现和深化了达尔文的性选择进化论,指出雌性对于求偶者的审美是导致动物进化的核心力量,先于自然选择的拣选和淘汰。 达尔文认为雌性动物具有审美的本能,而雄性动物竭力通过展示魅力来取悦其性交对家。雌性动物确立了作为其种类的“美的标准”,具有符合这一标准之...  

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这本书重新发现和深化了达尔文的性选择进化论,指出雌性对于求偶者的审美是导致动物进化的核心力量,先于自然选择的拣选和淘汰。 达尔文认为雌性动物具有审美的本能,而雄性动物竭力通过展示魅力来取悦其性交对家。雌性动物确立了作为其种类的“美的标准”,具有符合这一标准之...  

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谢谢这书教育了我天择论的单薄,但美国人太喜欢车轱辘话来回说了烦。想看《人的由来》,居然是潘光旦翻译的

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将达尔文被忽视的伴侣选择理论深化并延伸,提供新视角来审视择偶偏好的形成和进化,否定且diss了以自然选择为基础的主流观点和进化心理学理论,强调“美”和女性择偶偏好的主导作用。作为去年纽约时段的十佳,很值得读,里面众多观点很有趣。

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