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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley

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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 has evolved.

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Citing the Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass, " who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators, and answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-393) and index.
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About the Author

Matt Ridley's books have been shortlisted for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters). His most recent book, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, won the award for the best science book published in 2003 from the National Academies of Science. He has been a scientist, a journalist, and a national newspaper columnist, and is the chairman of the International Centre for Life, in Newcastle, England. Matt Ridley is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
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Brook, June 8, 2007 (view all comments by Brook)
Science writing does not have to be dull and Matt Ridley proves it. This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read of any genre. Highly recommended, 5 stars, A++!!!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060556570
Subtitle:
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Author:
Ridley, Matt
Author:
by Matt Ridley
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Location:
New York
Subject:
Sex
Subject:
Human evolution
Subject:
Social evolution
Subject:
Life Sciences - Biology - General
Subject:
Life Sciences - Evolution
Subject:
Life Sciences - Evolution - Human
Subject:
Biology
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Perennial
Series Volume:
2001-10
Publication Date:
May 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
8.01x5.32x1.00 in. .67 lbs.
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