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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... Sexual choice theory suggests that the answer is right in front of us. These traits are sexually attractive, and perhaps simpler forms of them have been attractive for hundreds of thousands of years. Over many generations, those with ...
... Sexual choice theory suggests that the answer is right in front of us. These traits are sexually attractive, and perhaps simpler forms of them have been attractive for hundreds of thousands of years. Over many generations, those with ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. usually displayed more conspicuously and noisily by males than by females. They produce sights and sounds that prove attractive to the opposite sex. They often ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. usually displayed more conspicuously and noisily by males than by females. They produce sights and sounds that prove attractive to the opposite sex. They often ...
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... sexual partners, I am not claiming that there is some sort of Freudian sex drive at work behind the scenes. Peacock tails do not need a sexual subconscious in order to be sexually attractive, and neither do our instincts for art ...
... sexual partners, I am not claiming that there is some sort of Freudian sex drive at work behind the scenes. Peacock tails do not need a sexual subconscious in order to be sexually attractive, and neither do our instincts for art ...
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... attractive feelings would spread because they were favored by sexual choice. Evolution found a way to act directly ... sexually selected minds can produce incredible things such as Greek mathematics, Buddhist wisdom, British evolutionary ...
... attractive feelings would spread because they were favored by sexual choice. Evolution found a way to act directly ... sexually selected minds can produce incredible things such as Greek mathematics, Buddhist wisdom, British evolutionary ...
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... Sexual selection he compared to a rather different sort of artificial selection more familiar to the leisured classes, and more relevant to gorgeous ornamentation: breeding pet birds to make them look unusual and attractive. In Tb: he ...
... Sexual selection he compared to a rather different sort of artificial selection more familiar to the leisured classes, and more relevant to gorgeous ornamentation: breeding pet birds to make them look unusual and attractive. In Tb: he ...
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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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