by Matt Ridley
Ridley argues sexual selection drives the evolution of human intelligence and culture. The arms race between parasites and hosts explains why sex exists, and mate competition shaped our minds.
In this collection, The Red Queen references 2 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on The Selfish Gene and The Origin of Species.
It’s picked up by The Rational Optimist.
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Ridley engages extensively with Dawkins' Selfish Gene and gene-centred view of evolution throughout
Builds on Darwin's sexual selection theory from Origin of Species to explain the evolution of sex and human mating
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Ridley references his own earlier Red Queen framework for coevolutionary arms races to describe how trading populations generate cumulative cultural complexity.
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