عنوان

A taste for the beautiful :

(Number (ISBN

0691167265

(Number (ISBN

0691191395

(Number (ISBN

9780691167268

(Number (ISBN

9780691191393

Title Proper

A taste for the beautiful :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the evolution of attraction /

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael J. Ryan.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Princeton :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color) ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.

Text of Note

Why all the fuss about sex? -- Why all the whining and chucking? -- Beauty and the brain -- Visions of beauty -- The sounds of sex -- The aroma of adulation -- Fickle preferences -- Hidden preferences and life in pornotopia -- Epilogue.

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Text of Note

"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, transforming our understanding of sexual selection and, in the process, shedding new light on human behavior. 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."--Jacket.

Text of Note

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.

Sexual attraction.

Sexual selection in animals.

Attraktion

Sexual attraction.

Sexual selection in animals.

Sexuelle Attraktion

Sexuelle Selektion

Tiere

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ryan, Michael J., (Michael Joseph),1953-

Date of Transaction

20200822122922.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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