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A Taste for the Beautiful

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

A Taste for the Beautiful

By Michael Ryan

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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansIn A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off, transforming our understanding of sexual selection and shedding new light on animal and human behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge science, Ryan explo...Show more

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9780691191393

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2019

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A Taste for the Beautiful

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