Full name: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Author: Matt Ridley Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060556570 0060556579

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. Similar books: The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins Evolution by James A. Shapiro The Tangled Tree by David Quammen Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins Life Ascending by Nick Lane The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Next of Kin by Roger Fouts The Shallows by Nicholas Carr