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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... 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 show conspicuous differences between individuals, and those differences are often ...
... 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 show conspicuous differences between individuals, and those differences are often ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. sexual when we're ... sex drive at work behind the scenes. Peacock tails do not need a sexual ... differences between women and men, not those between humans and other ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. sexual when we're ... sex drive at work behind the scenes. Peacock tails do not need a sexual ... differences between women and men, not those between humans and other ...
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... sex, personality, culture, occupation, and so forth. Still, differences within our species are minor compared with differences across species, so it can be useful to analyze “the human mind” as distinct from “the chimpanzee mind” or ...
... sex, personality, culture, occupation, and so forth. Still, differences within our species are minor compared with differences across species, so it can be useful to analyze “the human mind” as distinct from “the chimpanzee mind” or ...
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... Sex of 1871. The title is misleading. Less than a third of the book—only 250 pages—concerns our descent from ape ... differences between the so-called races of man.” Later in the introduction he pretended that his only reason for considering ...
... Sex of 1871. The title is misleading. Less than a third of the book—only 250 pages—concerns our descent from ape ... differences between the so-called races of man.” Later in the introduction he pretended that his only reason for considering ...
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... Sex So how does sexual selection explain ornamentation? Darwin's problem was ... differences in survival ability. It cannot favor traits opposed to survival ... sex in relation to the other sex. In The Origin. Darwin argued that sexual ...
... Sex So how does sexual selection explain ornamentation? Darwin's problem was ... differences in survival ability. It cannot favor traits opposed to survival ... sex in relation to the other sex. In The Origin. Darwin argued that sexual ...
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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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