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  The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback) By (author) Matt Ridley

  

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  Short Description for The Red QueenCiting the Red Queen from "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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  • Publisher: HARPER PERENNIAL
  • Published: 01 May 2003
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages
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  • Categories: Biology, Life Sciences | Evolution
  • ISBN 13: 9780060556570 ISBN 10: 0060556579
  • Sales rank: 12,103

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• 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.