***The Red Queen* compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.**
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. *The Red Queen* answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture—including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. *The Red Queen* offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.
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***The Red Queen* compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.** Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. *The Red Queen* answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture—including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. *The Red Queen* offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.