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 organism's survival chances . The habitat is inanimate and doesn't care about those it affects . Biological competitors just ...
... species . Natural selection is just something that happens as a side - effect of these factors influencing an organism's survival chances . The habitat is inanimate and doesn't care about those it affects . Biological competitors just ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... species that make their livings in nearly identical ways and gives them radically different sexual ornaments . It ... species of beetle , but no two have the same kind of sexual ornamentation . There are more than three hundred species ...
... species that make their livings in nearly identical ways and gives them radically different sexual ornaments . It ... species of beetle , but no two have the same kind of sexual ornamentation . There are more than three hundred species ...
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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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