The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human NatureKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 21 дек. 2011 г. - Всего страниц: 528 At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, a book that offers the most convincing—and radical—explanation for how and why the human mind evolved. Consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art: these are the traits that make us human. Scientists have traditionally explained these qualities as merely a side effect of surplus brain size, but Miller argues that they were sexual attractors, not side effects. He bases his argument on Darwin’ s theory of sexual selection, which until now has played second fiddle to Darwin’ s theory of natural selection, and draws on ideas and research from a wide range of fields, including psychology, economics, history, and pop culture. Witty, powerfully argued, and continually thought-provoking, The Mating Mind is a landmark in our understanding of our own species. |
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... ancestors, using their powers of sexual choioe to influence—unconsciously—what kind of offspring they produced. By intelligently choosing their sexual partners for their mental abilities, our ancestors became the intelligent force ...
... ancestors, using their powers of sexual choioe to influence—unconsciously—what kind of offspring they produced. By intelligently choosing their sexual partners for their mental abilities, our ancestors became the intelligent force ...
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... ancestors to cross over from the pre - human world of natural history to the world of human culture . How did they transform themselves from apes to New Yorkers ? Their evolutionary path seems obscure . Yet we know there must have been ...
... ancestors to cross over from the pre - human world of natural history to the world of human culture . How did they transform themselves from apes to New Yorkers ? Their evolutionary path seems obscure . Yet we know there must have been ...
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... ancestors managed not just to live for a while , but to convince at least one sexual partner to have enough sex to produce offspring . Those proto - humans that did not attract sexual interest did not become our ancestors , no matter ...
... ancestors managed not just to live for a while , but to convince at least one sexual partner to have enough sex to produce offspring . Those proto - humans that did not attract sexual interest did not become our ancestors , no matter ...
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... ancestors , using their powers of sexual choice to influence unconsciously what kind of offspring they produced . By intelligently choosing their sexual partners for their mental abilities , our ancestors became the intelligent force ...
... ancestors , using their powers of sexual choice to influence unconsciously what kind of offspring they produced . By intelligently choosing their sexual partners for their mental abilities , our ancestors became the intelligent force ...
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... ancestors faced during the day , I wanted to think about the courtship problems they faced at night . In poetic terms , I wondered whether the mind evolved by moonlight . In scientific terms , sexual selection through mate choice seemed ...
... ancestors faced during the day , I wanted to think about the courtship problems they faced at night . In poetic terms , I wondered whether the mind evolved by moonlight . In scientific terms , sexual selection through mate choice seemed ...
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The Runaway Brain | 68 |
A Mind Fit for Mating | 99 |
Ornamental Genius | 138 |
Courtship in the Pleistocene | 177 |
Bodies of Evidence | 224 |
Arts of Seduction | 258 |
Virtues of Good Breeding | 292 |
Cyrano and Scheherazade | 341 |
The Wit to Woo | 392 |
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