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The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

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The Red Queen

De: Matt Ridley
Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome

Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.

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. The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.

 Biología Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas Evolución Evolución y Genética Historia Historia y Filosofía Mundial Matrimonio
Fascinating Exploration • Scientific Analysis • Excellent Narration • Interesting Theories • Insightful Perspectives

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Unless interested in biology, the beginning is a little dry, but completely worth getting through. The more interesting later section uses these concepts and theories to attempt to explain much of human behavior with very plausible and supremely interesting theories.

Perspective shifting

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This book was a bit outdated as of now, but nevertheless informative. I enjoyed all the background information and detailed explanations.

Informative

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First of all, this book offers a good history of the thinking about certain aspects of sexual selection from an evolutionary perspective. The narration is excellent, as one should expect from Simon Prebble. The book is generally well-written if less than perfectly edited.

However, I find that the author often falls into a reactionary trap of dismissing too much of the substance of arguments that differ in assumptions or details from his own point of view. Further, the author is often inconsistent about his own apparent principles regarding the appropriate weight that ought to be given to certain scientific studies. In one paragraph he can dismiss the entire premise of the fields of anthropology, sociology, and psychology while embracing without criticism results of studies in those fields which do happen to match up to his thesis.

And on numerous occasions the author is more than willing to make sweeping assumptions about potential sociological results because "everyone knows" what the answer would be--even while admitting there is no evidence on the subject either way. And in so doing he falls into the exact same traps he criticizes practitioners of those other disciplines for doing so. On one page, he rejects assumptions of anthropologists that lack evidence, and on the next he lambasts them for demanding strong evidence before changing how they do their research.

Finally, besides these numerous logical errors, cherry-picking, and conclusion-jumping, the author demonstrates an unfortunately sloppiness in style when he is willing to constantly assert "boys are X" and "women are Y" and "is it any surprise that boys do X better than girls" and vice versa. Yes, he's right that there are gender differences in psychology and average skill, but he's so interested in proving wrong the social scientists--who, prior to strong evidence becoming available otherwise, preferred to assume both genders thought in the same way--that he raises slight differences in averages into sweeping generalizations that are foundational to his arguments... at least when it suits him. Other times he takes great pains to point out that individuals vary when that helps his argument more.

Overall, not worth the listen. The reactionary tone leads to poor conclusions, and at this point the data is so outdated it's not worth cluttering your mind.

Great narrator, good history, poor conclusions

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1. Simon Prebble reads this book at breakneck speed. This would be fine for for a thriller but for a fairly technical book on evolutionary science and genetics, it was too fast. I had to turn the speed down to 90%.
2. In all fairness, this was written in 1993 and many of the more recent studies documenting differences across races had not yet been discovered. The author sticks to a safe left wing view that racial differences can emerge in every other part of human physiognomy except the brain and behavior (!)
3. A few times he uses the scientific findings he reviews to suggest public policy recommendations. Every single time he supports left wing big government solutions. This is not science, it is partisan. No terrible, just funny when scientific types try to be objective.
4. Great book, stellar for 1993.

Solid Review Thru a Left Wing Lens

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I absolutely love this book. Frankly the narrator is the best I've ever heard as well. It's jam-packed with information and references while simultaneously thoroughly entertaining. If you have any curiosity about sociobiology, read this book.

Phenomenal

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