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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... species but not in other closely related species that share a similar environment. What Makes Sexual Selection So Special? In the 1930s, biologists redefined natural selection to include sexual selection, because they did not think ...
... species but not in other closely related species that share a similar environment. What Makes Sexual Selection So Special? In the 1930s, biologists redefined natural selection to include sexual selection, because they did not think ...
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... species. Natural selection is just something that happens as a side-effect of these factors influencing an 0rganism's survival chances. The habitat is inanimate and doesn't care about those it affects. Biological competitors just care ...
... species. Natural selection is just something that happens as a side-effect of these factors influencing an 0rganism's survival chances. The habitat is inanimate and doesn't care about those it affects. Biological competitors just care ...
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... species did not evolve. The first problem is that really large brains and complex minds arose very late in evolution and in very few species. Life evolved relatively quickly after the Earth cooled from a molten blob to a planet with a ...
... species did not evolve. The first problem is that really large brains and complex minds arose very late in evolution and in very few species. Life evolved relatively quickly after the Earth cooled from a molten blob to a planet with a ...
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... species, but evolution is opportunistic and even-handed. It doesn't discriminate between species. If our unique abilities must be explained through some survival benefit, we can always ask why evolution did not confer that same benefit ...
... species, but evolution is opportunistic and even-handed. It doesn't discriminate between species. If our unique abilities must be explained through some survival benefit, we can always ask why evolution did not confer that same benefit ...
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... species that make their livings in nearly identical ways and gives them radically different sexual ornaments. It never happens the same way twice. It drives divergent rather than convergent evolution. There are probably half a million ...
... species that make their livings in nearly identical ways and gives them radically different sexual ornaments. It never happens the same way twice. It drives divergent rather than convergent evolution. There are probably half a million ...
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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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