عنوان

A taste for the beautiful :

شابک

0691167265

شابک

0691191395

شابک

9780691167268

شابک

9780691191393

عنوان اصلي

A taste for the beautiful :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the evolution of attraction /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael J. Ryan.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Princeton :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2018]

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2018

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :

ساير جزييات

illustrations (some color) ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

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

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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.

متن يادداشت

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.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexual attraction.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexual selection in animals.

موضوع مستند نشده

Attraktion

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexual attraction.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexual selection in animals.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexuelle Attraktion

موضوع مستند نشده

Sexuelle Selektion

موضوع مستند نشده

Tiere

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

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

تاريخ عمليات

20200822122922.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y