The Red Queen - Matt Ridley  ## Metadata - Author: **Matt Ridley** - Full Title: The Red Queen - Category: #books ## Highlights - People, after all, are universally interested in beauty. Lipstick, jewelry, eye shadow, perfume, hair dyes, high heels-people are just as willing to exaggerate or lie about their sexually alluring traits as any peacock or bowerbird. And as the list above makes clear, it seems as if men seek female beauty rather more than women seek male beauty. - Tags: #transhumanism #biology - In most societies women travel to live with their husbands, whereas men tend to remain close to their relatives. - Tags: #biology - But wealth had another advantage, too. Not only could it buy wives directly, it could also buy "power." It is noteworthy that it is hard to distinguish between wealth and power before the time of the Renaissance. Until then there was no such thing as an power economic sector independent of the power structure. A man's livelihood and his allegiance were owed to the same social superior. Power is, roughly speaking, the ability to call do your bidding, and that depended strictly on wealth (with a little help from violence). - Tags: #biology #wealth