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2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“people like Richard Prum at Yale, who's written a wonderful book called The Evolution of Beauty, are saying let's have a fourth go at persuading the biological world that Darwin was right here…”
Why: It argues that beauty is something birds appreciate for its own sake.
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
Guest on EconTalkBird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley)
“That's actually a quote from The Origin of Species, his great book. He then returns to the topic at great length in The Descent of Man in 1871.”
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Guest on EconTalkBird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley)
Named without an opinion attached.
“there's a wonderful quote from the descent of man which was his 1871 book where he says the most refined beauty may serve as a sexual charm and for no other purpose…”
The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Guest on EconTalkBird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley)
“There's a lot of beauty in the natural world. And I don't think it was put there to please us, which was essentially the theological version of evolution that he's up against.”
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Guest on EconTalkBird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley)