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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... cultural cap . ' -Helena Cronin , London School of Economics " Miller is the real thing , and his wonderfully readable book should be read by everyone with a taste for serious ideas . " The Independent ( London ) " A refined , an ...
... cultural cap . ' -Helena Cronin , London School of Economics " Miller is the real thing , and his wonderfully readable book should be read by everyone with a taste for serious ideas . " The Independent ( London ) " A refined , an ...
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... cultural inventions that stimulate our tastes in evolutionarily novel ways , without improving our evolutionary success . His views that the arts are " biologically frivolous " has upset many performing artists sympathetic to ...
... cultural inventions that stimulate our tastes in evolutionarily novel ways , without improving our evolutionary success . His views that the arts are " biologically frivolous " has upset many performing artists sympathetic to ...
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... Cultural anthropology textbooks present no good evolutionary theories of art , music , or religion , because there are none . Psychology textbooks do not offer any good evolutionary theories of human intelligence , creativity , or ...
... Cultural anthropology textbooks present no good evolutionary theories of art , music , or religion , because there are none . Psychology textbooks do not offer any good evolutionary theories of human intelligence , creativity , or ...
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... cultural riches tomorrow . To understand the mind's evolution , it is probably best to forget everything one knows about human history and human civilization . Pretend that the last ten thousand years did not happen . Imagine the way ...
... cultural riches tomorrow . To understand the mind's evolution , it is probably best to forget everything one knows about human history and human civilization . Pretend that the last ten thousand years did not happen . Imagine the way ...
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... cultural records that allow knowledge to accumulate across generations , our sexually selected minds can produce incredible things such as Greek mathematics , Buddhist wisdom , British evolutionary biology , and Californian computer ...
... cultural records that allow knowledge to accumulate across generations , our sexually selected minds can produce incredible things such as Greek mathematics , Buddhist wisdom , British evolutionary biology , and Californian computer ...
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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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