Will Sargent reviewed The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
Review of 'The Red Queen' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
It's uneven in places, but it gives a good overview of evolutionary psychology, and shines some interesting light on the historical patterns of how men with high status do what they can to get as many offspring as possible. The details on harems are especially fascinating, partly because it's so utterly politically incorrect.
However, there are parts of the book that just plain fallover. He claims to have no answer for fashion (given that men don't care about it, why do women do so much work?) without considering that fashion is most often a competition between women over status, where the puted objective (the regard of men) has fallen by the wayside. Women care about fashion because to not care about fashion is, in this society at least, to not be a woman.
So. Good book, says basically the same things as Survival of the Prettiest.