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Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”

Posted on September 18, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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