The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human NatureAt once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, The Mating Mind marks the arrival of a prescient and provocative new science writer. Psychologist Geoffrey Miller 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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Every one of our ancestors managed not just to live for a while, but to convince at least one sexual partner to have enough sex to produce offspring. Those proto-humans that did not attract sexual interest did not become our ancestors, ...
Every one of our ancestors managed not just to live for a while, but to convince at least one sexual partner to have enough sex to produce offspring. Those proto-humans that did not attract sexual interest did not become our ancestors, ...
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But I think it is more important, especially for nonbiologist readers, to appreciate that selection for survival and selection for attracting sexual partners are distinct processes that tend to produce quite different kinds of ...
But I think it is more important, especially for nonbiologist readers, to appreciate that selection for survival and selection for attracting sexual partners are distinct processes that tend to produce quite different kinds of ...
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They produce sights and sounds that prove attractive to the opposite sex. They often reveal an animal's fitness by being difficult to produce if the animal is sick, starving, injured, or full of harmful mutations.
They produce sights and sounds that prove attractive to the opposite sex. They often reveal an animal's fitness by being difficult to produce if the animal is sick, starving, injured, or full of harmful mutations.
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Trained by years of explicit instruction, motivated by sophisticated status games, and with cultural records that allow knowledge to accumulate across generations, our sexually selected minds can produce incredible things such as Greek ...
Trained by years of explicit instruction, motivated by sophisticated status games, and with cultural records that allow knowledge to accumulate across generations, our sexually selected minds can produce incredible things such as Greek ...
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It can present a bold theory about the function of the adaptation and the selection pressures that produced it, and see whether the adaptation has special features consistent with that function and those origins.
It can present a bold theory about the function of the adaptation and the selection pressures that produced it, and see whether the adaptation has special features consistent with that function and those origins.
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Пользовательский отзыв - Drifter83 - LibraryThingI am always impressed when very smart people in very technical fields can effectively explain their work to the rest of us. Miller does this, and he does it in an entertaining (and sexy) way.What I ... Читать весь отзыв
The mating mind: how sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature
Пользовательский отзыв - Not Available - Book VerdictMiller (senior research fellow, Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution, Univ. Coll., London) here argues that the human mind and human behaviorDincluding language and moralityDhave evolved ... Читать весь отзыв
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| 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 |
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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| Название | The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature |
| Автор | Geoffrey Miller |
| Издатель | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307813746, 9780307813749 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 528 |
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