文档介绍：About the Author
MATT R I D L E Y is the author of Nature Via Nurture: Genes,
Experience, and What Makes Us Human; the critically acclaimed
national bestseller Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23
Chapters; The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of
Cooperation; and the New York Times Notable Book The Red Queen: Sex
and the Evolution of Human Nature. His books have been short-listed
for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. Formerly a scientist, journalist, and a national newspaper
columnist, he is a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory in New York and the chairman of the International
Centre for Life in Newcastle, England:
THE RED QUEEN
Sex and the Evolution of
Human Nature
MATT RIDLEY
Perennial
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For Matthew
This book was first published in Great Britain in 1993 by Penguin Books
Ltd: 1t is here reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Putnam.
THE RED QUEEN: Copyright © 1993 by Matt Ridley: All rights reserved:
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First Perennial edition published 2003.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ridley, Matt.
The red queen : sex and the evolution of human nature / Matt
Ridley.—1st Perennial ed:
p: cm.
1
Originally published: London: Viking, 993 :
Includes bibliographical references and index:
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ISBN - -0 55 6 57-9
1: Human evolution. z. Social evolution: 3: Sex 1: Title:
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