Richard O. Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology at Yale University, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. He has conducted field work throughout the world, and has studied fossil theropod dinosaurs in China. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
发表于2024-05-02
The Evolution of Beauty 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
一 关于阅读本书的乐趣和价值 这本书的阅读是非常有趣的,无论是大道理还是小事例,都不断激发着我的脑电波。我以为很多社会风潮、流行言论、社会现象,都可以在这本书中,从非人动物那里找到相似、甚至一模一样的现象,于是接下来是欣慰还是惊醒就看个人的悟性了。这种跨物种...
评分11/03/2017 最近看到有人提起,就贴过来吧。 刚听这本书时候的一点小片段。其实后面的内容不止这些,蛮有趣的。 昨天煮饭时听到一段关于duck sex的内容,差点笑喷了,很有意思也很有意义,所以要记一下。 前面都在讲鸟儿们的迁徙特性、羽毛和歌声,narrator还时不时学学鸟叫。...
评分一 关于阅读本书的乐趣和价值 这本书的阅读是非常有趣的,无论是大道理还是小事例,都不断激发着我的脑电波。我以为很多社会风潮、流行言论、社会现象,都可以在这本书中,从非人动物那里找到相似、甚至一模一样的现象,于是接下来是欣慰还是惊醒就看个人的悟性了。这种跨物种...
图书标签: 科普 进化论 非虚构 生物学 心理学 2017 英文 美国
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature?
Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum—reviving Darwin’s own views—thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to, selection for individual survival. To explain this, he dusts off Darwin’s long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons—for the mere pleasure of it—is an independent engine of evolutionary change.
Mate choice can drive ornamental traits from the constraints of adaptive evolution, allowing them to grow ever more elaborate. It also sets the stakes for sexual conflict, in which the sexual autonomy of the female evolves in response to male sexual control. Most crucially, this framework provides important insights into the evolution of human sexuality, particularly the ways in which female preferences have changed male bodies, and even maleness itself, through evolutionary time.
The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature’s splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution and of ourselves.
最后两章不行,私货过多。
评分谢谢这书教育了我天择论的单薄,但美国人太喜欢车轱辘话来回说了烦。想看《人的由来》,居然是潘光旦翻译的
评分从观鸟到择偶,handicap theory和证明adaptive theory的零假设蛮耳目一新。蛮多篇幅在人类的性器官和择偶演化,倒是现在的共识了。
评分听的audible上的有声书,上一秒还在讲羽毛和歌声,下一秒就讲生殖器,没有目录看就是这么精彩。这本很喜欢了,female choice在进化过程中的作用,比我们想象的大,不一定是生理性的,还有文化层面的。同性性行为的原因。这种切片很容易被当成武断,但其实我们连切片断面都不懂。
评分啰嗦是缺点,话题和观点很有意思。
The Evolution of Beauty 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书