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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... PLEASURES MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD . THE English word pleasure is of a very general and indeterminate fignification , denoting what is agreeable either to the body or to the mind : Thus we not only speak of the pleasures of fenfe , but ...
... PLEASURES MORE THAN LOVERS OF GOD . THE English word pleasure is of a very general and indeterminate fignification , denoting what is agreeable either to the body or to the mind : Thus we not only speak of the pleasures of fenfe , but ...
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... Pleasure drives actions, even to the point of a person committing suicide, which is seemingly far from pleasure. When the present moment lacks pleasure severely enough, ending all future similar moments would provide him what he seeks ...
... Pleasure drives actions, even to the point of a person committing suicide, which is seemingly far from pleasure. When the present moment lacks pleasure severely enough, ending all future similar moments would provide him what he seeks ...
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... pleasure, especially for the greatest pleasure on offer, the dishes would eventually smell of rot. You might be watching the sun set in Greece, but you would be doing it without a job. Epicurus denies there are two competing motives at ...
... pleasure, especially for the greatest pleasure on offer, the dishes would eventually smell of rot. You might be watching the sun set in Greece, but you would be doing it without a job. Epicurus denies there are two competing motives at ...
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... pleasure [...]. To be sure, as an inducement to coitus, genital pleasure is an essential lubricant in the evolutionary engine of humans.... None would deny, either, that sexual pleasure is a profoundly organic phenomenon, the ...
... pleasure [...]. To be sure, as an inducement to coitus, genital pleasure is an essential lubricant in the evolutionary engine of humans.... None would deny, either, that sexual pleasure is a profoundly organic phenomenon, the ...
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... pleasure from this communication.25 Sexual or aesthetic, and probably more sexual and aesthetic, this sensuality takes pleasure in tension, in its own tension felt not as the lack of an object but as an expansion of a subject. This ...
... pleasure from this communication.25 Sexual or aesthetic, and probably more sexual and aesthetic, this sensuality takes pleasure in tension, in its own tension felt not as the lack of an object but as an expansion of a subject. This ...
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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 |
Virtues of Good Breeding | 292 |
Cyrano and Scheherazade | 341 |
The Wit to Woo | 392 |
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