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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... modern biology textbooks define natural selection to include every process that leads some genes to out-compete other genes by virtue of their survival or reproductive benefits. When one biologist says “evolution through natural ...
... modern biology textbooks define natural selection to include every process that leads some genes to out-compete other genes by virtue of their survival or reproductive benefits. When one biologist says “evolution through natural ...
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... modern humans: the minds of our ancestors. It doesn't reduce psychology to biology, but sees psychology as a driving force in biological evolution. It portrays our ancestors' minds as both products and consumers evolving in the free ...
... modern humans: the minds of our ancestors. It doesn't reduce psychology to biology, but sees psychology as a driving force in biological evolution. It portrays our ancestors' minds as both products and consumers evolving in the free ...
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... , one could not ask for a worse correlation between growth in a biological organ and evidence of its supposed survival benefits. Our ancestors of a hundred thousand years ago were already anatomically modern humans with CENTRAL PARK 17.
... , one could not ask for a worse correlation between growth in a biological organ and evidence of its supposed survival benefits. Our ancestors of a hundred thousand years ago were already anatomically modern humans with CENTRAL PARK 17.
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... modern humans with bodies and brains just like ours. Yet they did not invent agriculture for another ninety thousand years, or urban civilization for another ninety-five thousand years. How could evolution favor the expansion of a ...
... modern humans with bodies and brains just like ours. Yet they did not invent agriculture for another ninety thousand years, or urban civilization for another ninety-five thousand years. How could evolution favor the expansion of a ...
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... modern societies, and psychology laboratories. This may sound like a radical change in scientific method, but it isn't. In broadening the focus from stones and bones to the comparative analysis of present adaptations. l am in fact ...
... modern societies, and psychology laboratories. This may sound like a radical change in scientific method, but it isn't. In broadening the focus from stones and bones to the comparative analysis of present adaptations. l am in fact ...
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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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