The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Citing the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll's 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.
Citing the Red Queen from Lewis Carroll's 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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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062200716 (0062200712)
ASIN: B006O4227U
Publish date: February 14th 2012
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Dry at the start, picks up at some points, but sometimes inaccessible.
Ya había leído What makes us human y me había gustado mucho como una revisión de la genética y la psicología humana. Esperaba algo interesante de este libro, aunque con psicología evolucionista uno siempre sabe que tendrá algunos momentos de escepticismo al leer. Eso fué exactamente lo que obtuve.Lo...
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