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Survival of the Prettiest The Science of Beauty

Paperback • 2000 • English

Survival of the Prettiest The Science of Beauty

By Nancy Etcoff

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About the book

A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.  In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism—it’s in our biology.  Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ...Show more

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ISBN

9780385479424

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Survival of the Prettiest The Science of Beauty

Format

Paperback

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