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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... selection for survival , but by an equally important process that he called sexual selection through mate choice . Following his insight , I shall argue that the most distinctive aspects of our minds evolved largely through the sexual ...
... selection for survival , but by an equally important process that he called sexual selection through mate choice . Following his insight , I shall argue that the most distinctive aspects of our minds evolved largely through the sexual ...
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... selection through mate choice seemed a neglected factor in human mental evolution . Through ten years of researching sexual selection and human evolution , since the beginning of my Ph.D. , it became clear to me that sexual selection ...
... selection through mate choice seemed a neglected factor in human mental evolution . Through ten years of researching sexual selection and human evolution , since the beginning of my Ph.D. , it became clear to me that sexual selection ...
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... selection for reproduction , we can talk more easily about their differences . One difference is that sexual selection through mate choice can be much more intelligent than natural selection . I mean this quite literally . Natural selection ...
... selection for reproduction , we can talk more easily about their differences . One difference is that sexual selection through mate choice can be much more intelligent than natural selection . I mean this quite literally . Natural selection ...
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... choice theory suggests that the answer is right in front of us . These ... mate choice cannot favor what its agents cannot perceive . If animals cannot ... partner . A major theme of this book is that before language evolved , our ...
... choice theory suggests that the answer is right in front of us . These ... mate choice cannot favor what its agents cannot perceive . If animals cannot ... partner . A major theme of this book is that before language evolved , our ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. Giving so much credit to sexual choice can make sexual selection sound almost too powerful . If sexual selection can act on any trait that we can notice in other ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. Giving so much credit to sexual choice can make sexual selection sound almost too powerful . If sexual selection can act on any trait that we can notice in other ...
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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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