- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- 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, account of beauty and its perception. This is a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of Darwin's path to its formulation - one that shows the man, rather than the myth, and examines both the social and intellectual roots of Darwin's theory.
- Subjects
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780226437064
- OCLC
- EDZ0001661387
- Author
Richards, Evelleen, author.
- Title
Darwin and the making of sexual selection / Evelleen Richards.
- Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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