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2248224Survival of the Prettiesthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/survival-of-the-prettiest/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1880993/e23b815d-fcd6-4ecb-9c8d-dfc6419ebbba.jpg?v=638342115051000000204249MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.</p><p>In <em>Survival of the Prettiest</em>, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminismits in our biology.</p><p>Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilizationand for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity. When seen in the context of a Darwinian struggle for survival, our sometimes extreme attempts to attain beautyboth to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partnersuddenly become much more understandable. Moreover, if we understand how the desire for beauty is innate, then we can begin to work in our own interests, and not just the interests of our genetic tendencies.</p>...2079937Survival of the Prettiest204249https://www.gandhi.com.mx/survival-of-the-prettiest/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1880993/e23b815d-fcd6-4ecb-9c8d-dfc6419ebbba.jpg?v=638342115051000000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780307779113_W3siaWQiOiI1YjI5NWEzYy03NmU4LTQ4MGItODZhMi02N2E1YTVjYjI0NDciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMyNywiZGlzY291bnQiOjc1LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI1MiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDY6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780307779113_<p>A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.</p><p>In <em>Survival of the Prettiest</em>, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminismits in our biology.</p><p>Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilizationand for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity. When seen in the context of a Darwinian struggle for survival, our sometimes extreme attempts to attain beautyboth to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partnersuddenly become much more understandable. Moreover, if we understand how the desire for beauty is innate, then we can begin to work in our own interests, and not just the interests of our genetic tendencies.</p>...9780307779113_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_3b571f3c-c48f-404c-b5a0-5c8deedaa6a5_9780307779113;9780307779113_9780307779113Nancy EtcoffInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-59e4fea9-7eb8-4b40-935c-4532c846848f.epub2011-02-02T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group