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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... invented their own versions of the human arts. Psychologically, it fails to explain why it is so much harder for us to learn mathematics than music, surgery than sports, and rational science than religious myth. I think we can do better ...
... invented their own versions of the human arts. Psychologically, it fails to explain why it is so much harder for us to learn mathematics than music, surgery than sports, and rational science than religious myth. I think we can do better ...
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... invent Machiavellian tricks to deceive and manipulate others. Human morality has been reduced to a tit-fortat accountant that keeps track of who owes what to whom. Theories of language evolution have neglected human storytelling, poetry ...
... invent Machiavellian tricks to deceive and manipulate others. Human morality has been reduced to a tit-fortat accountant that keeps track of who owes what to whom. Theories of language evolution have neglected human storytelling, poetry ...
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... invent agriculture for another ninety thousand years, or urban civilization for another ninety-five thousand years. How could evolution favor the expansion of a costly organ like the brain, without any major survival benefits becoming ...
... invent agriculture for another ninety thousand years, or urban civilization for another ninety-five thousand years. How could evolution favor the expansion of a costly organ like the brain, without any major survival benefits becoming ...
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... invent literature or television for another hundred thousand years. They don't need to. They have one another. The intellectual and technical achievements of our species in the last few thousand years depend on mental capacities and ...
... invent literature or television for another hundred thousand years. They don't need to. They have one another. The intellectual and technical achievements of our species in the last few thousand years depend on mental capacities and ...
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... invent new ideas even when we are not in love. Fossils, Stories, and Theories Anyone presenting a theory about human mental evolution is usually expected to present a speculative chronology of what evolved when, and to show how the ...
... invent new ideas even when we are not in love. Fossils, Stories, and Theories Anyone presenting a theory about human mental evolution is usually expected to present a speculative chronology of what evolved when, and to show how the ...
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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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