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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... 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 intellectually ingenious , and a.
... 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 intellectually ingenious , and a.
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... idea that sexual choice was an important factor in the human mind's evolution may sound radical , but it is firmly ... ideas . Today , the world's leading biology journals are dominated by technical papers on sexual selection theory and ...
... idea that sexual choice was an important factor in the human mind's evolution may sound radical , but it is firmly ... ideas . Today , the world's leading biology journals are dominated by technical papers on sexual selection theory and ...
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... idea is also timely because it counters the charge that evolutionary psychology is some sort of " biological reductionism " or " genetic determinism . " Many critics allege that evolutionary psychology tries to reduce psychology to ...
... idea is also timely because it counters the charge that evolutionary psychology is some sort of " biological reductionism " or " genetic determinism . " Many critics allege that evolutionary psychology tries to reduce psychology to ...
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... ideas even the apparently most speculative ones fully testable in ways I cannot anticipate . My sexual choice theory sometimes sounds as if it could explain anything , and hence explains nothing . This overlooks the fact that biologists ...
... ideas even the apparently most speculative ones fully testable in ways I cannot anticipate . My sexual choice theory sometimes sounds as if it could explain anything , and hence explains nothing . This overlooks the fact that biologists ...
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... ideas about how evolution works , but have described the mind's capacities very conservatively . That approach suggests that modern evolutionary theory is a castle built on sand , whereas modern psychology is the Rock of Gibraltar . I ...
... ideas about how evolution works , but have described the mind's capacities very conservatively . That approach suggests that modern evolutionary theory is a castle built on sand , whereas modern psychology is the Rock of Gibraltar . I ...
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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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