Event time:
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 5:00pm
Location:
Yale Peabody Museum
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Do the Peacock’s brilliant tail and the lovely song of the Wood Thrush encode information about mate quality? Or are these ornaments merely beautiful? In The Evolution of Beauty, Director of The Franke Program Richard Prum explores how sexual beauty evolves in the living world through mate choice, including insights into the evolution of human sexuality.
A lecture by Professor Richard Prum and book-signing for his book The Evolution of Beauty, which was featured in his recent opinion piece “Are These Birds Too Sexy to Survive?” in The New York Times’ Sunday Review.
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