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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... body to mind . This book argues that we were neither created by an omniscient deity , nor did we evolve by blind , dumb natural selection . Rather , our evolution was shaped by beings intermediate in intelligence : our own ancestors ...
... body to mind . This book argues that we were neither created by an omniscient deity , nor did we evolve by blind , dumb natural selection . Rather , our evolution was shaped by beings intermediate in intelligence : our own ancestors ...
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... body of the first person you ever fell in love with , and the last person , and everyone in between . A theory that can't give a satisfying account of your own mind , and the minds you've loved , will never be accepted as providing a ...
... body of the first person you ever fell in love with , and the last person , and everyone in between . A theory that can't give a satisfying account of your own mind , and the minds you've loved , will never be accepted as providing a ...
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... body , but not the human mind . In the 20th century , a unique scientific fascination with human psychology coexisted with an unprecedented bafflement about its origins . By considering the 19th - century origins of sexual selection ...
... body , but not the human mind . In the 20th century , a unique scientific fascination with human psychology coexisted with an unprecedented bafflement about its origins . By considering the 19th - century origins of sexual selection ...
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... body , but has indirectly influenced the progressive development of various bodily structures and of certain mental qualities . Courage , pugnacity , perseverance , strength and size of body , DARWIN'S PRODIGY 47.
... body , but has indirectly influenced the progressive development of various bodily structures and of certain mental qualities . Courage , pugnacity , perseverance , strength and size of body , DARWIN'S PRODIGY 47.
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... body , weapons of all kinds , musical organs , both vocal and instrumental , bright colors , stripes , and marks , and ornamental appendages , have all been indirectly gained by the one sex or the other , through the influence of love ...
... body , weapons of all kinds , musical organs , both vocal and instrumental , bright colors , stripes , and marks , and ornamental appendages , have all been indirectly gained by the one sex or the other , through the influence of love ...
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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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