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Richard O. Prum

Doubleday

2017-5-9

448

USD 30.00

Hardcover

9780385537216

圖書標籤: 科普進化論非虛構生物學心理學 2017 英文美國

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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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著者簡介

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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聽的audible上的有聲書，上一秒還在講羽毛和歌聲，下一秒就講生殖器，沒有目錄看就是這麼精彩。這本很喜歡瞭，female choice在進化過程中的作用，比我們想象的大，不一定是生理性的，還有文化層麵的。同性性行為的原因。這種切片很容易被當成武斷，但其實我們連切片斷麵都不懂。

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A beautiful theory of beauty

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因為想多知道一些關於evolution的知識，就讀瞭這本書，結果對於鳥類研究更有興趣瞭。Pheasant, manakin，bird of paradise，我們總是認為其他動物都比人類或者哺乳動物低級，而這些鳥類復雜的社會行為，卻不是我們我們能對低級動物的理解所解釋的。鳥類是否也存在它們的審美標準呢？而這些審美標準，是否都是自然選擇的結果呢？如果不是，那麼這些標準又從何而來呢？這本書大部分的篇幅都是在說，這些審美標準，除去自然選擇的部分，就是雌性對於美的認知和自由選擇的一種方式，與適應性沒關。然而現在的美，也有可能是曾經的適應性，這一點，似乎被作者略去瞭。雌性想要按照自己的意願選擇配偶，而不願意被強迫，這一點，真是從未聽說過的理論。雖然沒法完全相信書裏的內容，至少是打開瞭一點點思路。

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孤陋寡聞如我，直到聽瞭這本書纔知道進化學裏adaptationist和pluralist之爭，順藤摸瓜去看，原來還是此領域最為火熱的學派爭論之一，而這本書的作者，是反對adaptationism的。這本書的中心議題是性選擇（sexual selection），與傳統適應主義相比，性選擇並不認為後代的健康和生育能力是唯一的選擇標杆與進化動力，相反，它認為物種在選擇配偶上的主觀傾嚮起到很大的作用。有時候這類傾嚮僅建立在審美之上，而且像所有主觀傾嚮一樣，有時候閤理（帶來更健康和有生育力），有時並不。有時某一種trait最開始受到青睞的時候也許帶有閤理性，但後來則在軍備競賽般的誇大中丟掉瞭最初的閤理性——文中用08年房貸泡沫來比擬非常形象。總之是一本很有意思的書，可是不知道有沒有時間具體寫書評。

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