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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:The Evolution of Beauty
DESCRIPTION:Richard Prum\, author of The Evolution of Beauty\, discusses 
 his book\, its implications and its problems\, with the philos
 opher Philip Kitcher\, the historian of science Deborah R. Co
 en\, and the literary scholar George Levine.  Prum's book\, l
 isted by the New York Times as one of the best of 2017\, a
 ttempts to restore Darwin's theory of sexual selection\, not 
 only explaining through Prum's own original work in ornithol
 ogy how it works\, but also making a powerful case for the ex
 planatory inadequacy of the popular "Darwinian" adaptationis
 t paradigm in evolutionary biology.  Sexual selection\, part
 icularly mate choice\, Prum argues\, accounts not only for the
  gorgeous plumage of male birds\, but also for the splitting 
 of humans from their simian cousins.  Working independently
  of and often in conflict with natural selection\, sexual sel
 ection leads us to a new definition and understanding of aes
 thetics.  Perhaps even more strikingly\, it leads Prum to a 
 very strong feminist theory\, with intellectually revolutiona
 ry implications.
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