The Red Queen (1994) (edit title/settings)

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People edit see section history

• Ronald Fisher: (1890-1962) English biologist. Possibly the most prominent biologist since Darwin
• Charles Darwin: (1809-1882) English naturalist. First proposed the Theory of Evolution based on a process of natural selection.
• William Hamilton: (1936-2000) English evolutionary biologist.
• George C. Williams: (1926-2010) American evolutionary biologist.
• William Shakespeare: (1564-1616) English playwright
• Geoffrey Miller: (1965- ) American evolutionary psychologist.
• Alexey S. Kondrashov: (1957- ) Russian evolutionary geneticist.
• Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Müller: (1829–1883) German botanist who provided important evidence for Darwin's theory of evolution.
• John Maynard Smith: (1920-204) English theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
• Michael J. Ryan: American evolutionary biologist
• Richard Dawkins: (1941- ) English evolutionary biologist. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution.
• Donald Symons: (1942- ) American anthropologist who is best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective
• Anders Pape Møller: Danish scientist
• David Buss: (1953- ) American evolutionary psychologist.
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: (1946- ) American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
• Amotz Zahavi: (1928) Israeli evolutionary biologist.
• Marlene Zuk: American evolutionary biologist.
• Daniel Wilard: Add a description of this character.
• Mark Kirkpatrick
• John Tooby
• Ghiselin
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Wynne Edwards

Quotes edit see section history

• “For the central theme of our evolution has been sexual”

• “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”

• “Why sex? Surely there are features of human nature other than this one overexposed and troublesome procreative pastime. True enough, but reproduction is the sole goal for which human beings are designed: everything else is a means to that end. Human being inherit tendencies to survive, to eat,to think, to speak, and so on. But above all they inherit a tendency to reproduce. Those of their predecessors that reproduced passed on their characteristics to their offspring; those that remained barren did not. Therefore, anything that increased the chances of a person reproducing successfully was passed on at the expense of anything else. We can confidently assert that there is nothing in our natures that was not carefully "chosen" in this way for is ability to contribute to eventual reproductive success.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Africa
• America
• Britain
• China
• India
• Europe
• Rome
• California
• Santa Barbara
• New Zealand
• London
• New Guinea
• Germany
• Babylon

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Matt Ridley (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: GN0365.R530 1994
• Dewey: 573.2

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Too much science for kids

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Biological Sciences › Biology
• Books › Science › History & Philosophy › History of Science
• Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Evolution
• Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Biology
• Books › Medicine › Reproductive & Sexual › Reproduction
• Books › Science › Evolution