The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World--and Us (inscribed to Dava Sobel)
NY: Doubleday, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Dava Sobel, Beauty happens! Richard O. Prum." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017 (as a sticker on the front panel of the jacket declares) and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. "A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed 'the taste for the beautiful'—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world." Prum is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist and distinguished professor at Yale. He is MacArthur "Genius" and Guggenheim fellow and in 2021 he received the Lewis Thomas Prize for his science writing. Dava Sobel is also an acclaimed popular science writer and the author of bestselling books such as Longitude, Galileo's Daughter (a finalist for the Pulitzer and adapted for an A&E show), The Planets, and most recently The Elements of Marie Curie. She is also a Guggenheim fellow and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022 "for outstanding writings covering many centuries of key developments in physics and astronomy and the people central to those developments." She was the prestigious guest editor for the Best American Science and Nature Writing in 2004. A near fine book with a little wear to lower front corner; in fine jacket. Surprisingly scarce signed considering the book's success, a nice association between science writers. Fine / Fine. Item #1879
ISBN: 9780385537216
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