The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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 h…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-055657-0
- EAN: 9780060556570
- Produktnummer: 19366307
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.7 cm 308 g
- Gewicht: 308
Über den Autor
MATT RIDLEY is the award-winning, bestselling author of The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, 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 has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London as well as the Economist. He is a member of the House of Lords and lives in Newcastle and London.
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