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03429aam a2200361 i 4500 001 3F88C7AA475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 160811t20172017ilua b 001 0deng c 010 $a 2016036765 020 $a 022643690X 020 $a 9780226436906 035 $a (OCoLC)956947766 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CGU $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d A7U $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QH31.D2 $b R45 2017 082 00 $a 576.8/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Richards, Evelleen, $e author. 245 10 $a Darwin and the making of sexual selection / $c Evelleen Richards. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xxxiii, 669 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Epilogue: last words. $g "For beauty's sake": the making of sexual selection. $t The ugly brother -- $t Good wives -- $t "Bliss botanic" and "cocks heroic": two Darwins in the "temple of nature" -- $t Beauty cuts the knot -- $t Reading the face of race -- $t Good breeding: the art of mating -- $t "Better than a dog anyhow" -- $t Flirting with fashion -- $t Development matters -- $g "For beauty's sake": the making of sexual selection. $t Critical years: from pigeons to people -- $t Putting female choice in (proper) place -- $t The battle for beauty: Wallace versus Darwin -- $t Writing the Descent: from bird's-eye view to masterful breeder -- $t The post-Descent years: sexual selection in crisis, female choice at large -- $t Epilogue: last words. 520 8 $a Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as opposed to divine, account of beauty and its perception. Only now, with 'Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection', do we have a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of Darwin's path to its formulation - one that shows the man, rather than the myth, and examines both the social and intellectual roots of Darwin's theory. Drawing on the minutiae of his unpublished notes, annotations in his personal library, and his extensive correspondence, Evelleen Richards offers a richly detailed, multilayered history. Her fine-grained analysis comprehends the extraordinarily wide range of Darwin's sources and disentangles the complexity of theory, practice, and analogy that went into the making of sexual selection. Richards deftly explores the narrative strands of this history and vividly brings to life the chief characters involved. Twenty years in the making and a true milestone in the history of science, 'Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection' illuminates the social and cultural contingencies of the shaping of an important if controversial biological concept. 600 10 $a Darwin, Charles, $d 1809-1882. 600 17 $a Darwin, Charles, $d 1809-1882. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029136 650 0 $a Sexual selection $x History. 650 7 $a Sexual selection. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01895362 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706035130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3F88C7AA475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search