TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prum,Richard O.
TI  - The evolution of beauty: how Darwin's forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world-- and us 
SN  - 9780385537216
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Sexual selection in animals
KW  - Sexual selection
KW  - Mate selection
KW  - Courtship in animals
KW  - Human evolution
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-404) and index; Introduction -- Darwin's really dangerous idea -- Beauty happens -- Manakin dances -- Aesthetic innovation and decadence -- Make way for duck sex -- Beauty from the beast -- Bromance before romance -- Human beauty happens too -- Pleasure happens -- The Lysistrata effect -- The queering of Homo sapiens -- This aesthetic view of life
N2  - 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. In addition, Prum connects those same evolutionary dynamics to the origins and diversity of human sexuality, offering riveting new thinking about the evolution of human beauty and the role of mate choice, thereby transforming our ancestors from typical infanticidal primates into socially intelligent, pair-bonding caregivers. Prum's book is an exhilarating tour de force that begins in the trees and ends by fundamentally challenging how we understand human evolution and ourselves. --
ER  -