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A former editor of The Economist asks how sexual selection has molded human nature. The title here alludes to a scene in Lewis Carroll in which Alice and the Red Queen run as fast as possible to remain in the same place. Ridley looks first at current thinking on why sexual reproduction exists at all, when many organisms manage quite well without it. The answer has to do with disease: a species must rebuild its defenses from one generation to the next merely to keep from falling behind in the race against opportunistic viruses. Sex, by allowing a new shuffle of the genetic material with each generation, improves the chance of survival. But the predators also improve with each generation, so the race (vide Lewis Carroll) is never over. Turning to animals, Ridley describes mating patterns with an eye as to whether mates are selected for health and vigor, or for esthetics. He concludes that both play a role: neither sickly fashion-plates nor healthy wallflowers will pass on their genes as often as those who combine both beauty and health. Given the contrast between a brief sexual act and long years of child- rearing, aggressive males will tend to have more children, while nurturing women will have healthier ones. Those who select mates with these qualities will transmit them to ensuing generations, along with other qualities affecting offspring survival. Ridley contends--not a popular thesis in recent decades--that such genetic programming is far more central to human nature than social conditioning. Extensively researched, clearly written: one of the best introductions to its fascinating and controversial subject. (Notes, bibliography, index; eight pages of photos--not seen) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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This is a fascinating book filled with lucid prose and seductive reasoning. Freelance science writer Ridley reaches into the literature of genetics; molecular, theoretical and evolutionary biology; ecology; sociology; and anthropology to weave an extraordinary tale of the evolution of human nature, beginning with the evolution of sex. Using Lewis Carroll's Red Queen (who runs as fast as she can to stay in the same place) as a metaphor for evolution, Ridley shows how sex was the result of an evolutionary arms race between hosts and their disease-causing parasites. Ridley covers so much ground that transitions may be abrupt or unclear, particularly in the last two chapters; also, his review of human homosexuality is thin. His occasionally pompous style (including his immediate dismissal of those who do not believe in evolution) may offend some readers. However, Ridley clearly explains many complex and remarkable concepts for a wide audience. Highly recommended.
- Constance Rinaldo, Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, N.H.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This is the book that first demonstrated to me the power of evolutionary psychology to help us understand ourselves. Published a year before Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, which covers much of the same territory, this is to my mind a more sophisticated and more direct exposition. Both books are characterized by a sly wit and an incisive expression, but Ridley meanders less among the relics of Freud and Darwin and is less concerned about whether we're moral or not and more concerned with what's sexy and why. He had a lot of fun with this book and it shows.

The "red queen" is a metaphor for an arms race. In an arms race both sides run as fast and as hard as they can to stay in the same place relatively speaking. In evolution the arms race is between parasite and host or between predator and prey. Both are running as fast as they can just to keep up, because when one gets an advantage, the other finds a counter. The red queen comes from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) since that monarch ran as fast as she could but never got anywhere at all. The red queen is also a metaphor for the theory that there is no "progress" in evolution, that "...species do not get better at surviving... Their chances of extinction are random" (p. 64).

Ridley covers a lot of territory here, ranging from sex to the handicap principle to gossip to why our brains are big (to figure out what the other person is up to!). The Red Queen answers the question, "Why is there sex?" Apparently we have sexuality rather than asexuality because of the arms race between microbes and our immune systems. Sex is a way of storing defenses against parasites in the gene pool of the species and then mixing them anew each generation to fool the microbes. Without the gene pool and the DNA mixing, the microbes would quickly evolve a way around the organism's defenses; but with sexuality the organism juggles its "locks" every generation and so is able to keep up with the fast-mutating microbes. When again the microbes evolve the keys to these locks, the gene pool is mixed again and the organism comes up with an old lock that the microbes again have to evolve a key to.

Some of the fun is the incisive way Ridley presents the ideas, and the ideas he chooses to present. For example, note how effectively he demolishes Freud's naive incest taboo theory on pages 282-286. Also interesting is his presentation of the idea that it is not thinness in women per se that attracts men, but a low ratio of waistline to hip line that fetches them. There are chapters entitled "Polygamy and the Nature of Men," and "Monogamy and the Nature of Women." In Chapter 9, "The Uses of Beauty," Ridley goes into some detail on why men prefer thin and blond women. And on pages 217-218 he explains why women cuckold their mates: "This is because her husband is, almost by definition, usually not the best male there is-else how would he have ended up married to her?" She wants the parental care of her husband and some other man's superior-she thinks-genes.

Ridley is rather modest and says that most of the ideas in the book are not his and at any rate many of them will undoubtedly be proven wrong. This is refreshing to read when I think about all the delusive ideas so proudly trumpeted by popular books on evolution and human behavior in the past. Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape (1967) and Elaine Morgan's The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution (1982) come to mind, both fine books, but now seen to be substantially mistaken.

Written in an engaging and lucid style, The Red Queen really is the best of a number of books on evolutionary psychology to appear over the last decade and one that is a delight to read.

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I've owned this book for three and a half years and it still sheds light on re-reading. This book is a survey of how Evolutionary Biology (Sex) affects the human mind. It's starts off slowly with a survey of why sex is necessary i.e. genetic diversity is good. It then explores the ways sex works for the animal kingdom before zeroing in on humanity. Ridley then covers male desires from sex and female desires from sex. It's certainly given me an insight into what people are seeking from relationships at a deeply fundamental level. I'm a layman in this field and find that the book gives great food for thought on human behaviour and concludes by explaining how the great works of literature are the places to look for insight to human nature. This book is an essential for any modern library. You will refer to it again and again.
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Another great book by Matt Ridley. It's a bit more dense than his outstanding book "Genome". It's certainly more focused, and filled with intellectualy interesting information. I also suspect, the religious folk will not like it at all, for it contains the seeds of doom for their silly notions of sex and evolution. This book is written for lay persons, but has much for biologist and scientist to appreciate as well. I highly recommended.
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Where I came from (updated version).
I found this book concerning scientific research on the evolution of sex pretty darn good, but rather complicated. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Juni 2000 von Roger McEvilly (the guilty bystander)
provokingly sane evolutionary biology
After reading Robert Wright's 'The Moral Animal' (another excellent book on the subject) i was ready for more, and this book certainly keeps up the high quality penetrating and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Mai 2000 von Willem Noe
Now in my top 10 most influential books
This is on my list of Books Everyone Should Read, up there with _The_Gift_of_Fear_. Where deBecker explains violence, Ridley explains sex. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Human society, animals in zoos and TV will never be the same
Ricley is a master of the human and animal scene. You will never view a historical film, observe animals on TV or in the zoo without thinking of this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2000 von Allan Karson
Opened my eyes to a whole new world
This is the book that introduced me to what has become a favourite avocation: Evolutionary Biology.

The Red Queen is a fascinating and accessible introduction to a profoundly... Lesen Sie weiter...

Veröffentlicht am 26. März 2000 von CD Harris
A "must read" for students of the human condition
This is a thorough, cogent and very readable treatise on the one subject that fascinates us all. I have also read Ridley's "The Origins of Virtue. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. März 2000 von Barry Wiggins
OK, 4 1/2 Stars...
Like everyone else, I found the book entertaining, fascinating, illuminating, etc., so I don't have much to add to what others have already said. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Januar 2000 von Martian Bachelor
Be careful--This will change your view of the world
I first read this book when I was 14. It was recommended to me by the father of my boyfriend at the time with these words of advice: It will change your life. And it certainly did. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Dezember 1999 von Hilary Saltmarsh
A fascinating insight into human behavior
This book demolishes the vogue current theories that beauty is a result of what society says it is. Rather sexual attraction has to with our own biologically programmed bodies,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Fellow brain-author/physician loves this book!!
Ridley writes the most interesting book out there on human sexual sociobiology. He takes a very unbaised scientific stance, but nonetheless paints some very frightening truths if... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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