Becoming Wild by Carl Safina

Author:Carl Safina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

If only beautiful males get to breed “according to [females’] standard of beauty,” we’d see many species in which males are very beautiful.

We do.

So Darwin proposed another mechanism of evolution to complement natural selection: “sexual selection.” Boldly, Darwin wrote of the world-altering power of sheer aesthetics, of beauty “for beauty’s sake”:

A great number of male animals, as all our most gorgeous birds, some fishes, reptiles, and mammals, and a host of magnificently coloured butterflies … have been rendered beautiful for beauty’s sake; but this has been effected … through sexual selection, that is, by the more beautiful males having been continually preferred by the females, and not for the delight of man.

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