The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

基本信息·出版社：Harper Perennial
·页码：416 页
·出版日期：2003年05月
·ISBN：0060556579
·International Standard Book Number：0060556579
·条形码：9780060556570
·EAN：9780060556570
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介

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.

作者简介 Matt Ridley is the author of the national bestseller Genome. His previous books include The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. His science writing has appeared in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Discover, Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, and many other publications. He lives in northern England.