The Evolution of Beauty - How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World
epub | 50.73 MB | English | Author :Richard O. Prum | 978-0345804570 | 2017 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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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 vie-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...

Category : | Creationism, Ornithology, Organic Evolution