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Richard O. Prum

Doubleday

2017-5-9

448

USD 30.00

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9780385537216

图书标签: 科普进化论非虚构生物学心理学 2017 英文美国

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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.

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著者简介

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.

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最后两章不行，私货过多。

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因为想多知道一些关于evolution的知识，就读了这本书，结果对于鸟类研究更有兴趣了。Pheasant, manakin，bird of paradise，我们总是认为其他动物都比人类或者哺乳动物低级，而这些鸟类复杂的社会行为，却不是我们我们能对低级动物的理解所解释的。鸟类是否也存在它们的审美标准呢？而这些审美标准，是否都是自然选择的结果呢？如果不是，那么这些标准又从何而来呢？这本书大部分的篇幅都是在说，这些审美标准，除去自然选择的部分，就是雌性对于美的认知和自由选择的一种方式，与适应性没关。然而现在的美，也有可能是曾经的适应性，这一点，似乎被作者略去了。雌性想要按照自己的意愿选择配偶，而不愿意被强迫，这一点，真是从未听说过的理论。虽然没法完全相信书里的内容，至少是打开了一点点思路。

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我们所学的进化论很大程度上是华莱士的群体自然选择进化论，而达尔文的进化论更广泛，包括了美学，个体选择和自然选择等。现代科学对于美学有两个观点：统计大神Fisher的female choice和good genes（例如不利条件原则），作者更倾向于Fisher。最喜欢的作者的观点是：falling love is not game theory. Coevolution of aesthetic adaption and female choice have made it a deeply aesthetic experience that involves mutual social, cognitive, and physical seduction. 后几章关于女权和LGB也很有趣。

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孤陋寡闻如我，直到听了这本书才知道进化学里adaptationist和pluralist之争，顺藤摸瓜去看，原来还是此领域最为火热的学派争论之一，而这本书的作者，是反对adaptationism的。这本书的中心议题是性选择（sexual selection），与传统适应主义相比，性选择并不认为后代的健康和生育能力是唯一的选择标杆与进化动力，相反，它认为物种在选择配偶上的主观倾向起到很大的作用。有时候这类倾向仅建立在审美之上，而且像所有主观倾向一样，有时候合理（带来更健康和有生育力），有时并不。有时某一种trait最开始受到青睐的时候也许带有合理性，但后来则在军备竞赛般的夸大中丢掉了最初的合理性——文中用08年房贷泡沫来比拟非常形象。总之是一本很有意思的书，可是不知道有没有时间具体写书评。

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将达尔文被忽视的伴侣选择理论深化并延伸，提供新视角来审视择偶偏好的形成和进化，否定且diss了以自然选择为基础的主流观点和进化心理学理论，强调“美”和女性择偶偏好的主导作用。作为去年纽约时段的十佳，很值得读，里面众多观点很有趣。