A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction [Audiobook] download free by Michael Ryan
- Listen audiobook: A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
- Author: Michael Ryan
- Release date: 2018/2/2
- Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780691167268
- Rating: 8.97 of 10
- Votes: 256
- Review by: Elliana Burks
- Review rating: 9.26 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/16
- Duration: 2H47M52S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Musepack, MP3, TTA, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4 (compression RPM, ZIP, CAB, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M54S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humans Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that animals have 'a taste for the beautiful' that drives their potential mates to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and reproductively successful. But if Darwin explained why sexual beauty evolved in animals, he struggled to understand how. In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off and transformed our understanding of sexual selection, shedding new light on human behavior in the process. Drawing on cutting-edge work in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, as well as his own important studies of the tiny Tungara frog deep in the jungles of Panama, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not?Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers to these questions lie in the brain-particularly of females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males. This theory of how sexual beauty evolves explains its astonishing diversity and provides new insights about how much our own perception of beauty resembles that of other animals. Vividly written and filled with fascinating stories, A Taste for the Beautiful will change how you think about beauty and attraction.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Natural History Books, Popular Science, Zoology: Mammals, Biodiversity, Sexual Behaviour, Zoology & Animal Sciences, Neurosciences, Evolution
- Download servers: BitShare, Google Drive, Uploaded, IsoHunt, FreakShare. Compressed in RPM, ZIP, CAB, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 29.42 USD
- Dimensions: 162.56x233.68x25.4mm
- Weight: 482g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New Jersey, United States
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