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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... energy. Human morality and humor seem irrelevant to the business of finding food and avoiding predators. Moreover, if human intelligence and creativity were so useful, it is puzzling that other apes did not evolve them. Even if the ...
... energy. Human morality and humor seem irrelevant to the business of finding food and avoiding predators. Moreover, if human intelligence and creativity were so useful, it is puzzling that other apes did not evolve them. Even if the ...
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... energy to grow and time to preen, and makes it harder to escape from predators such as tigers. The peacock's tail evolved through mate choice. Its biological function is to attract peahens. The radial arrangement of its yard-long ...
... energy to grow and time to preen, and makes it harder to escape from predators such as tigers. The peacock's tail evolved through mate choice. Its biological function is to attract peahens. The radial arrangement of its yard-long ...
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... energy to run, given that the vast majority of successful animal species survive perfectly well with tiny brains? Second, there was a very long lag between the brain's expansion and its apparent survival payoffs during human evolution ...
... energy to run, given that the vast majority of successful animal species survive perfectly well with tiny brains? Second, there was a very long lag between the brain's expansion and its apparent survival payoffs during human evolution ...
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... energy costs of large brains, than about what they actually used their brains for. Evidence in the last decade has revealed how our ancestors evolved the ability to exploit energyrich foods such as game animals that could be hunted for ...
... energy costs of large brains, than about what they actually used their brains for. Evidence in the last decade has revealed how our ancestors evolved the ability to exploit energyrich foods such as game animals that could be hunted for ...
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... energy-rich foods could also be digested using shorter intestines than other apes have. As anthropologist Leslie Aiello has argued. since guts use a lot of energy, our smaller guts also increased our energy budget above what is ...
... energy-rich foods could also be digested using shorter intestines than other apes have. As anthropologist Leslie Aiello has argued. since guts use a lot of energy, our smaller guts also increased our energy budget above what is ...
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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 |
Cyrano and Scheherazade 34 | 341 |
The Wit to Woo | 392 |
Epilogue | 426 |
Acknowledgments | 434 |
Glossary | 436 |
Notes | 447 |
Bibliography | 467 |
Index | 491 |
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