The Evolution of God positive review in "The Atlantic", saying that the book "...gave me hope that we can avoid both the barrenness of a world without God and the horrible fusion of fundamentalism and weapons of mass destruction." "Newsweek" religion editor, Lisa Miller, described "The Evolution of God" as a reframing of the faith vs. reason debate. Drawing a contrast to such authors as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, Miller gives an overall positive review of the book's approach to the examination of the concept of God. In a review for "The New York Times", Yale professor of psychology Paul Bloom
The Evolution of Beauty preeminent. Prum proceeds to apply the principle of aesthetic evolution as an independent force in human evolution. Prum indicates that Darwin recognizing difficulties in the theory of natural selection advanced the view that sexual selection is an additional force in evolution and presented this argument in "The Descent of Man". Alfred Russel Wallace, St. George Mivart and other early evolutionists helped to elevate natural selection as the only force in evolution and delegated sexual selection to a subsidiary role. It was argued that sexual selection was based on recognition of markers of survival fitness, so that, for instance in birds,