Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of… by Nancy Etcoff · Audiobook preview

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Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
Authored by Nancy Etcoff
Narrated by Donna Postel

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0:03 1. Introduction: The Nature of Beauty
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BOOK DESCRIPTION

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.



In Survival of the Prettiest, 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 feminism—it's in our biology.



Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilization—and 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 beauty—both to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partner—suddenly 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.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nancy Etcoff has an MEd from Harvard, a PhD in psychology from Boston University, and held a postdoctoral fellowship in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT. She is currently a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Donna Postel is fascinated by all kinds of stories and loves telling them. From memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense, Donna uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: February 19, 2019
ISBN: 9781977339546
Duration: 10 hr, 2 min
Genres: Health & Fitness / Beauty & Grooming / General, Health & Fitness / General, Social Science / General, Social Science / Sociology / General