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Description
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... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“For the central theme of our evolution has been sexual”
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“Its theme is that it is impossible to understand human nature without understanding how it evolved, and it is impossible to understand how it evolved without understanding how human sexuality evolved”
First Sentence
When a surgeon cuts into a body, he knows what he will find inside.
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Authors & Contributors
- Matt Ridley (Author)
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