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A Taste for the Beautiful - The Evolution of Attraction (Hardcover)
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A Taste for the Beautiful - The Evolution of Attraction (Hardcover)
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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the
astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of
beauty in animals and humans Darwin developed the theory of sexual
selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning
beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the
songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have "a taste for
the beautiful" that drives their potential mates to evolve features
that make them more sexually attractive and reproductively
successful. But if Darwin explained why sexual beauty evolved in
animals, he struggled to understand how. In A Taste for the
Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on
animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other
scientists have taken up where Darwin left off and transformed our
understanding of sexual selection, shedding new light on human
behavior in the process. Drawing on cutting-edge work in
neuroscience and evolutionary biology, as well as his own important
studies of the tiny Tungara frog deep in the jungles of Panama,
Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain
traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals have an inherent
sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that
the answers to these questions lie in the brain--particularly of
females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development
of beautiful traits in males. This theory of how sexual beauty
evolves explains its astonishing diversity and provides new
insights about how much our own perception of beauty resembles that
of other animals. Vividly written and filled with fascinating
stories, A Taste for the Beautiful will change how you think about
beauty and attraction.
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