📚 5 Books mentioned in "Why Evolution Favours Beauty Over Survival - Matt Ridley" of Modern Wisdom
Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: Why Evolution Favours Beauty Over Survival - Matt Ridley
Published on April 3, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea
and the book is the book is called I should say bird sex and Beauty The Strain the the the um oh what did I what's the subtitle the the implications of Charles Darwin strangest idea
The speaker (Matt Ridley) names his own book, which is the subject of the podcast episode.
The Evolution of Beauty
Buy The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum on Amazon
And Richard PR has written about this in in his book The Evolution of beauty
The speaker mentions Richard Prum's book as discussing the club-winged mannequin example.
The Heart is a Quarter Pounder
Buy The Heart is a Quarter Pounder by Jeffrey Miller on Amazon
but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called The Mating mind
The speaker introduces Jeffrey Miller's book as presenting the idea that the human brain is a sexually selected feature.
The Moral Animal
Buy The Moral Animal by Robert Wright on Amazon
although as far I I've read um uh Robert Wright's book was the the first one moral animal was what got me into evolutionary psychology again for wonderful book wonderful I that's that book is 30 years old now more than 30 years old
The host mentions reading Robert Wright's book, identifying it as the one that introduced him to evolutionary psychology.
The Voyage of the Beagle
Buy The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin on Amazon
well he mentioned the idea in the Origin of Species very briefly
The speaker mentions Darwin's book and where he briefly introduced the idea of sexual selection.