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Vital signs: The Darwinian semiotics of beauty in the animal and human worlds

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From the journal Semiotica

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Richard O. Prum, The evolution of beauty: How Darwin’s forgotten theory of mate selection shapes the animal world and us. New York: Doubleday, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-385-53721-6. Price: U.S. $ 30.00.


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Published Online: 2019-05-21
Published in Print: 2019-07-26

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