The Ant and the Peacock
Subtitle: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today
Contributors: John Maynard Smith (Foreword)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780521329378
Subjects: Animal ecology; Evolution; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Life Sciences - Evolution; Animal Behavior (Ethology); Science; Sexual selection in animals; Science/Mathematics; Natural selection; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Evolution; Altruistic behavior in animals; Courtship in animals; Courtship of animals
First sentence: We are walking archives of ancestral wisdom.