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Richard O. Prum · 2017
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What this book knows
Beauty is not a signal of fitness but an autonomous aesthetic force that drives evolution through mate choice, especially female preference.
desire
a male Golden-headed Manakin… brilliantly golden yellow head, bright white eyes, and ruby-red thighs… nervous energy that belies his almost dumpy appearance
TEB-001how strong the resistance to aesthetic evolution really is… a measure of the threat this idea poses to mainstream adaptationist evolutionary thought
TEB-003embodiment
He weighs about a third of an ounce… short neck and short tail, giving him a compact body, but he has a nervous energy
TEB-001'Forced copulations' is the term… Human rape is an act with such great symbolic and social impact
TEB-002erotic-as-power
resistance to aesthetic evolution… really a measure of the threat this idea poses to mainstream adaptationist evolutionary thought
TEB-003rape, and the threat of rape, in human societies functions as a mechanism for social and political oppression of women
TEB-002Illuminates
3 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience
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