The Red Queen

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Referring to Lewis Carroll s Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity s best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband Brilliantly written, The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved. Best Download [ The Red Queen ] author [ Matt Ridley ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Things I learned from this book human women like tall men, human men like beautiful women, barn swallow women like men with long, symmetrical tails, gentlemen prefer blondes, sperm are small because they made a dastardly deal with nature, gender exists and there are two of them essentially as an accidental by product of a primordial genetic arms race, why we think that we or anything else has sex as opposed to splitting in half or excanging packets of DNA , why roosters have wattle Things I learned from this book human women like tall men, human men like beautiful women, barn swallow women like men with long, symmetrical tails, gentlemen prefer blondes, sperm are small because ...Coming out of pre veterinary medicine and a slew of genetics classes, I can say that nothing in this book is particularly mind blowing except the hubris The author has drawn up a laundry list of assumptions about all of humanity and left out a good deal of its subjects As a scientist or, at the very least, as a lover of science the references were interesting enough to keep me reading But as someone with sexual awareness, a hesitancy to polarize gender and sexuality, and my own idea of Coming out of pre veterinary medicine and a slew of genetics classes, I can say that nothing in this book is particularly mind blowing except the hubris The author has drawn up a laundry list of assumptions about all of humanity and left out a good deal of its subjects As a scientist or, at the very least, as a lover of science the references were interesting enough to keep me reading But as someone with se...What could have shaped the human mind is an endlessly interesting subject, no question about that Speculating about contributions of the genes, nature, nurture, culture is fun, as much as getting a new perspective on what has always seemed obvious Still, I did not like this book as much as I probably would, had it a bit less of sheer speculations Some readers praise Ridley for objectively presenting to them so many different and often contradictory theories When discussions are heated, it What could have shaped the human mind is an endlessly interesting subject, no question about that Speculating about contributions of the genes, nature, nurture, culture is fun, as much as getting a new perspective on what has always seemed obvious Still, I did not like this book as much ...This was one of those books that I bought because I was sucked in by the title and the cover Plus I thought, hey that s kinda out of my comfort zone, I d like to push myself to read something new and possibly difficult to understand.I couldn t make it past the first chapter, so I read the end in hopes to find what his conclusion is and its we are all apes in the end I find that rather depressing and quite hard to believe I find it hard to swallow that we are only biological animals who are dr This was one of those books that I bought because I was sucked in by the title and the cover Plus I thought, hey that s kinda out of my comfort zone, I d like to push myself to read something new and possibly difficult to understand.I couldn t make it past the first chapter, so I read the end in hopes to find what his conclusion is and its we are all apes in the end I find that rather depressing and quite hard to believe I find it hard to swallow that we are only biological animals who are driven only by the need to find a way to better our species by sex with those chosen for their perfection I look at all we create and imagine and I see so muchthan that He does grant that we are creative, but still underneath it al...Well, I had hoped to write this review closer to having read the book, but I ll write this anyway, just without some of the examples I was hoping to remember.Roughly the first 1 2 to 2 3 of the books covers the different explanations for why sex arose and the mating habits of various non human species One thing that is great about this book is it will relate a theory, then an insufficiency in the theory, then a counter theory, then additional findings, and back and forth and so on If there isn Well, I had hoped to write this review closer to having read the book, but I ll write this anyway, just without some of the examples I was hoping to remember.Roughly the first 1 2 to 2 3 of the books covers the ...This is really well written, but I just can t really wrap my head around the themes of sexuality in this book, especially as it concerns the idea of gender Also I don t really trust men of science who c... How muchgenerous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience. The Red Queen Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature is a very accessible book It is easy to read, follow and understand After reading this book, you will never look the same at a cheating spouse, How muchgenerous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes ...I enjoyed this book and recommend it highly Some may see it as a cynical view of human nature, however I found it to be an engaging and convincing one My favorite quote from this book sums up the totality of the text for me the choosiness in human beings in picking their mates has driven the human mind into a frenzied expansion for no reason except that wit, virtuosity,inventiveness, and individuality turn people on It is a somewhat less uplifting perspective on the purpose of humanity I enjoyed this book and recommend it highly Some may see it as a cynical view of human nature, however I found it to be an engaging and convincing one My favorite quote from this book sums up the totality of the text for me the choosiness in human beings in picking their mates has driven the human mind into a frenzied expansion for no reason except that wit, virtuosity,inventiveness, and individuality turn people on It is a so...This was an interesting exploration of the reasons for sexual reproduction in many organisms, as well as then discussing the science with relation to human sexuality and sociology Ridley makes good thorough use of a broad range of research findings in the area, discussing these with mainly even handedness and a breadth of illustrative examples The central theme relates to the importance of sexual reproduction in protection from disease and in best perpetuating our genes It s an educational This was an interesting exploration of the reasons for sexual reproduction in many organisms, as well as then discussing the science with relation to human sexuality and sociology Ridley makes good thorough use of a broad range of research findings in the area, discussing these with mainly even handedness and a breadth of illustrative examples The central theme relates to the importance of sexual reproduction in protection from disease and in best perpetuating our genes It s an educational and readable book, full of useful facts and insights I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.Unfortunately for me, I found some of it hard going because much of the science was stuff I already knew about from my college and university education, and ...1 1000 1 1000 1000 1 2 1000

The Red Queen
  • English
  • 26 March 2018
  • Paperback
  • 405 pages
  • 0060556579
  • Matt Ridley
  • The Red Queen