The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Auteur Matt Ridley

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ISBN

9780060556570

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Matt Ridley

Uitgeverij

HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Jaar van uitgifte

2003

Aantal pagina's

416

Waar gaat het over?

A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures. (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love. 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 cultureincluding 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. The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.

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