The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature - Softcover

Ridley, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060556579 ISBN 13: 9780060556570

Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA, 2003

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Red queen: sex and the evolution of human nature editado por Harper & Row USA

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

Matt Ridley is the award-winning, bestselling author of several books, including The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves; Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters; and The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. His books have sold more than one million copies in thirty languages worldwide. He writes regularly for The Times (London) and The Wall Street Journal, and is a member of the House of Lords. He lives in England.

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• Verlag: Harper Collins Publ. USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060556579
• ISBN 13: 9780060556570
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 405