Darwin and the making of sexual selection / Evelleen Richards.
Darwin and the making of sexual selection / Evelleen Richards.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
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G 2018/0661
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English
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Physical content
xxxiii, 669 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Prologue: "an awful stretcher" -- Beauty, brotherhood, and breeding: the origins of sexual selection. The ugly brother -- Good wives -- "Bliss botanic" and "cocks heroic": two Darwins in the "temple of nature" -- Beauty cuts the knot -- Reading the face of race -- Good breeding: the art of mating --...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as opposed to divine...
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Darwin and the making of sexual selection / Evelleen Richards.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-633) and index.
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©2017
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G 2018/0661
Record Identifier
74VKVGBQ6MQX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGBQ6MQX
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ISBN
9780226436906 (cloth ; alk. paper)
022643690X (cloth ; alk. paper)
DDC
576.82
MMS ID
991024156172302626
