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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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. GS ... selection. He realized that bugs must be golden for their own purposes, not to ... female pigeons with relentless cooing and strutting. If the females go away ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. GS ... selection. He realized that bugs must be golden for their own purposes, not to ... female pigeons with relentless cooing and strutting. If the females go away ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller ... selection is simply a way of describing how differences in reproductive success lead to ... female birds, by selecting, during thousands of generations, the most ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller ... selection is simply a way of describing how differences in reproductive success lead to ... female birds, by selecting, during thousands of generations, the most ...
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... selection was not only useful in explaining ornamental traits that natural ... choice, picking the stronger and more attractive males over the weaker and ... female norm. Mature males become more strongly differentiated, compared with ...
... selection was not only useful in explaining ornamental traits that natural ... choice, picking the stronger and more attractive males over the weaker and ... female norm. Mature males become more strongly differentiated, compared with ...
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... females. The second process, sexual selection through female choice, interested him far more than male contests of strength. The hypothesis of female choice was, Darwin knew, among his most daring and unanticipated. The theory of sexual ...
... females. The second process, sexual selection through female choice, interested him far more than male contests of strength. The hypothesis of female choice was, Darwin knew, among his most daring and unanticipated. The theory of sexual ...
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... female choice could account for it: The case of the male Argus is eminently interesting, because it affords good evidence that the most refined beauty may serve as a charm for the female, and for no other purpose. . . . Many will ...
... female choice could account for it: The case of the male Argus is eminently interesting, because it affords good evidence that the most refined beauty may serve as a charm for the female, and for no other purpose. . . . Many will ...
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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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