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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... nature." —The Tirncs (London) “Anyone who thinks evolutionary theory is stuffy should pick up 772:2 Mating Mind. Geoffrey Miller sets our usual assumptions about human intelligence—that natural selection alone is responsible—on its head ...
... nature." —The Tirncs (London) “Anyone who thinks evolutionary theory is stuffy should pick up 772:2 Mating Mind. Geoffrey Miller sets our usual assumptions about human intelligence—that natural selection alone is responsible—on its head ...
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... natural 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 ...
... natural 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 ...
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... natural selection, alone and unguided, can account for the human mind's astounding abilities. Most think that the mind's evolution must have been guided by some intelligent force, some active designer. Even in more secular nations such ...
... natural selection, alone and unguided, can account for the human mind's astounding abilities. Most think that the mind's evolution must have been guided by some intelligent force, some active designer. Even in more secular nations such ...
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... natural selection with combinational algorithms for causal and probabilistic reasoning about plants, animals, objects and people.” Although he knows that reproductive success is evolution's bottom line, he overlooked the possible role ...
... natural selection with combinational algorithms for causal and probabilistic reasoning about plants, animals, objects and people.” Although he knows that reproductive success is evolution's bottom line, he overlooked the possible role ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. only by becoming more of a sexual revolution—by giving more credit to sexual choice as a driving force in the mind's evolution. Evolutionary psychology must become ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. only by becoming more of a sexual revolution—by giving more credit to sexual choice as a driving force in the mind's evolution. Evolutionary psychology must become ...
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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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