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The evolution of everything is about bottomup order and its enemy, the topdown twitch the endless fascination human beings have with design rather than evolution, with direction rather than emergence. The red queen by matt ridley and simon prebble audiobook. Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twentythree pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Sex and the evolution of human nature by matt ridley the red queen is the very interesting book about how human nature evolved as a result of sex. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 344 pages and is available in paperback format. Ridley s thesis is that sexual selection in animals of all sorts, not just humans is responsible for the development of many important traits, rather than pressures from the environment such as the needs to find food, traverse the landscape, avoid predators, etc.
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