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The Red Queen

by Matt Ridley

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About the book

The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love. 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. The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.

A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.

Wall Street Journal

Categories:

Biology Anthropology Evolution Science Sexuality Popular Science Sociology Psychology Non-fiction History

Language:

English

Length:

405 pages

Author:

Matt Ridley
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