A Taste for the Beautiful : : The Evolution of Attraction / / Michael J. Ryan.
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 humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors...
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Ryan, Michael J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Taste for the Beautiful : The Evolution of Attraction / Michael J. Ryan. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (224 p.) : 16 color illus. 8 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Why All the Fuss about Sex? -- Chapter Two: Why All the Whining and Chucking? -- Chapter Three: Beauty and the Brain -- Chapter Four: Visions of Beauty -- Chapter Five: The Sounds of Sex -- Chapter Six: The Aroma of Adulation -- Chapter Seven: Fickle Preferences -- Chapter Eight: Hidden Preferences and Life in Pornotopia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 humansDarwin 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 Túngara 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 the degree to which 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Sexual attraction. Sexual selection in animals. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691167268 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400889150?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889150 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400889150/original |
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