THE EVOLUTION OF BEAUTY

A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferenceswhat 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 feature s each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Yale University ornithol ogist Richa...[Leer más]