03902cam a2200349 4500 533168738 ER5 20210917120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781524756598 1524756598 648e6bac-6511-49ed-b675-0ef6115b6598 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2911128 OverDrive (Product ID) ER5 Prum, Richard O. The Evolution of Beauty [Libby Audiobook] : How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World--and Us. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 375MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 375MB. HTML:A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?      Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum—reviving Darwin's own views—thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to, selection for individual survival. To explain this, he dusts off Darwin's long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons—for the mere pleasure of it—is an independent engine of evolutionary change.     Mate choice can drive ornamental traits from the constraints of adaptive evolution, allowing them to grow ever more elaborate. It also sets the stakes for sexual conflict, in which the sexual autonomy of the female evolves in response to male sexual control. Most crucially, this framework provides important insights into the evolution of human sexuality, particularly the ways in which female preferences have changed male bodies, and even maleness itself, through evolutionary time.      The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature's splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. Science. Media Type: Audiobook. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. 10 Best Books of 2017. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. Woren, Dan. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2911128-TheEvolutionOfBeauty.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=648e6bac-6511-49ed-b675-0ef6115b6598&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2911128-TheEvolutionOfBeauty.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=648e6bac-6511-49ed-b675-0ef6115b6598&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)