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- Book Title
- Animal Beauty : on the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
- Publication Name
- Animal Beauty
- Title
- Animal Beauty
- Subtitle
- On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
- Illustrator
- Suse Grützmacher
- Translator
- Jonathan Howard
- Contributor
- Suse Grützmacher (Illustrated by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 026203994X
- EAN
- 9780262039949
- ISBN
- 9780262039949
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Nature, Art, Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Evolution, Aesthetics, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Animals / General, Life Sciences / Biology
- Release Date
- 14/05/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.3in
- Item Width
- 4.2in
- Series
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Item Weight
- 6.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as "beauty"? The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in apparently the same way that we see beauty in works of art. In Animal Beauty , Nobel Prize-winning biologist Christiane N sslein-Volhard describes how the colors and patterns displayed by animals arise, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Watercolor drawings illustrate these amazing instances of animal beauty. Darwin addressed the topic of ornament in his 1871 book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex , and did not hesitate to engage with criteria of beauty, convinced that animals experienced color and ornament as attractive and agreeable in the same way that we do, and that the role this played in mate choice pointed to a "sexual selection" distinct from natural selection. N sslein-Volhard examines key examples of ornament and sexual selection in the animal kingdom and lays the groundwork for biological aesthetics. Noting that color patterns have not been a research priority--perhaps because they appeared to be nonessential luxuries rather than functional necessities--N sslein-Volhard looks at recent scientific developments on the topic. In part because of N sslein-Volhard's own research on the zebrafish, it is now possible to decipher the molecular genetic mechanisms that lead to production of colors in animal skin and its appendages and control its pattern and distribution.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
026203994x
ISBN-13
9780262039949
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038265006
Product Key Features
Book Title
Animal Beauty : on the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Aesthetics, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Animals / General, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Nature, Art, Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
4.2in
Item Weight
6.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qh366.2.N8913 2019
Illustrated by
Grutzmacher, Suse
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-042911
Dewey Decimal
576.8
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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