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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Paperback - 2003
by Ridley, Matt
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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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- Title The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
- Author Ridley, Matt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2003-04-29
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0060556579-7-1
- ISBN 9780060556570 / 0060556579
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.32 x 1 in (20.35 x 13.51 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Social evolution, Sex
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003043356
- Dewey Decimal Code 599.938
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From the rear cover
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.