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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection (Hardcover)
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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection (Hardcover)
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Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively
studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual
selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual
selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it
explained things that natural selection could not and offered a
naturalistic, as opposed to divine, account of beauty and its
perception. Only now, with Darwin and the Making of Sexual
Selection, do we have a comprehensive and meticulously researched
account of Darwin's path to its formulation one that shows the man,
rather than the myth, and examines both the social and intellectual
roots of Darwin's theory. Drawing on the minutiae of his
unpublished notes, annotations in his personal library, and his
extensive correspondence, Evelleen Richards offers a richly
detailed, multilayered history. Her fine-grained analysis
comprehends the extraordinarily wide range of Darwin's sources and
disentangles the complexity of theory, practice, and analogy that
went into the making of sexual selection. Richards deftly explores
the narrative strands of this history and vividly brings to life
the chief characters involved. Twenty years in the making and a
true milestone in the history of science, Darwin and the Making of
Sexual Selection illuminates the social and cultural contingencies
of the shaping of an important if controversial biological concept.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2017 |
Authors: |
Evelleen Richards
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Dimensions: |
229 x 153 x 54mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
672 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-43690-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-43690-X |
Barcode: |
9780226436906 |
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