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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us: A Book Review

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Prum has had a long, productive, award-studded ornithological career, a chaired professor of ornithology at Yale and recipient of a prized MacArthur fellowship. In the last third of The Evolution of Beauty , Prum makes an enthusiastic effort to apply his ideas–Beauty Happens, sexual conflict, aesthetic remodeling– to humans.

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