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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... functions. From a pragmatic biological viewpoint, art and music seem like pointless wastes of energy. Human morality and humor seem irrelevant to the business of finding food and avoiding predators. Moreover, if human intelligence and ...
... functions. From a pragmatic biological viewpoint, art and music seem like pointless wastes of energy. Human morality and humor seem irrelevant to the business of finding food and avoiding predators. Moreover, if human intelligence and ...
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... functions . From a pragmatic biological viewpoint , art and music seem like pointless wastes of energy . Human morality and humor seem irrelevant to the business of finding food and avoiding predators . Moreover , if human intelligence ...
... functions . From a pragmatic biological viewpoint , art and music seem like pointless wastes of energy . Human morality and humor seem irrelevant to the business of finding food and avoiding predators . Moreover , if human intelligence ...
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... function ? A Mind for Courtship This book proposes that our minds evolved not just as survival machines , but as ... function is to attract peahens . The radial arrangement of its yard - long feathers , with their iridescent blue and ...
... function ? A Mind for Courtship This book proposes that our minds evolved not just as survival machines , but as ... function is to attract peahens . The radial arrangement of its yard - long feathers , with their iridescent blue and ...
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... function , he concluded that art and music must be like cheesecake and pornography - cultural inventions that ... functions . One of my goals in writing this book has been to see whether evolutionary psychology could prove as satisfying ...
... function , he concluded that art and music must be like cheesecake and pornography - cultural inventions that ... functions . One of my goals in writing this book has been to see whether evolutionary psychology could prove as satisfying ...
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... function . To date , it has proven very difficult to propose a biological function for human creative intelligence that fits the scientific evidence . We know that the human mind is a collection of astoundingly complex adaptations , but ...
... function . To date , it has proven very difficult to propose a biological function for human creative intelligence that fits the scientific evidence . We know that the human mind is a collection of astoundingly complex adaptations , but ...
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Darwins Prodigy | 33 |
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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