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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by: Matt Ridley

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.938
EAN: 9780060556570
ISBN: 0060556579
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: May 01, 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 4018

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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 more 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.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- 2nd Half is better than the 1st half
This is a fascinating book that I really enjoyed. The book challenges the Politically Correct idea that was unfortunately forced on the children who grew up in the 90's - that Men and Women are exactly the same, and anyone who says otherwise is sexist. The book states the obvious: men and women have brains that function slightly differently.

The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars is that the first few chapters are filled with a lot of scientific jargon, and technical terms that seemed necessary. You could probably skip the 1st 3 chapters and not really miss anything important to the book.

Still a fascinating read. I recommend it.

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- The Red Queen
"The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley. A review by Ralph Hermansen.
I would buy Matt Ridley's next book without hesitation, no matter what the topic. He is one of the few authors who thoroughly researches his subject and understands the science underlying it. He then delivers the information to you in an interesting way. You certainly get your money's worth in his books.

"The Red Queen" is about the evolutionary forces which has shaped us as human beings. The significance of Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from the book, "Alice in Wonderland", is that we have to run just to stand still. So it is with evolution. We have to improve our survival skills over the generations to keep pace with the other plants and animals which are also advancing in their survival skills.

Much ... Read More

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- Superb Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This book gives us a glimpse of our true nature. It explains us many urges that we have and destroys many myths that we have. Matt Ridley have made a significant contribution toward mankind. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- Picking up where The Selfish Gene left off....
With a casual disregard for political correctness, the post-feminist generation is reintroduced to basic human nature. What for millenia was taken for granted as so fundamental that it needed no explanation, became the height of impropriety to mention in polite company. In fact, it's been a bizarre inversion of reality that's taken hold as the popular opinion in society. Because it's soft and cuddly and non-offensive and doesn't threaten to hurt the feewings of the poor widdle wadies out there.

There is no greater testament to our ability to suspend disbelief then the denial of human nature on such an elemental, such a rudimentary level. When Ridley dropped this book like a bomb in the mid-90's at the height of the PC movement, it was like the lone voice of reason in a sandstorm ... Read More

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- The content is good but the quality of the book not
The quality of this book I think is very good, the way in which the history is related and the content of the book are very good. The subject is developed very well and the way in which we learn the importance of the sex in the combat with parasites and virus is amazing. In general, the content of the book is very good and interesting.

Though, the quality of paper in the book that I received is very bad, the impression is not clear and the book is very fragile, is a shame because the book is very good but with this quality of book the interest in read it decrease.

May be is my version, but I have not found another version in paperback.

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