Red Queen e-bog
84,89 DKK
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A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures. (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, 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 r...
E-bog
84,89 DKK
Forlag
Harper Perennial
Udgivet
14 februar 2012
Længde
416 sider
Genrer
Biology, life sciences
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062200716
A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures. (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, 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 cultureincluding 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.