This book was first published in Great Britain in 1993 by Penguin Books Ltd. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Putnam.
THE RED QUEEN. Copyright © 1993 by Matt Ridley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Perennial edition published 2003.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ridley, Matt.
The red queen: sex and the evolution of human nature / Matt
Ridley.—1st Perennial ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: London: Viking, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-06-055657-9 ISBN 978-0-06-055657-0
EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062200716
1. Human evolution. 2. Social evolution. 3. Sex I. Title.
GN365.9.R53 2003
| 599.93’8—dc21 | 2003043356 |
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