Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Introduction

Chapter 1: Darwin’s Really Dangerous Idea

Chapter 2: Beauty Happens

Chapter 3: Manakin Dances

Chapter 4: Aesthetic Innovation and Decadence

Chapter 5: Make Way for Duck Sex

Chapter 6: Beauty from the Beast

Chapter 7: Bromance Before Romance

Chapter 8: Human Beauty Happens Too

Chapter 9: Pleasure Happens

Chapter 10: The Lysistrata Effect

Chapter 11: The Queering of Homo sapiens

Chapter 12: This Aesthetic View of Life

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Illustrations