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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... adaptation for survival, but it makes perfect sense as an adaptation for courtship. The human mind's most impressive abilities are like the peacock's CENTRAL PARK 3.
... adaptation for survival, but it makes perfect sense as an adaptation for courtship. The human mind's most impressive abilities are like the peacock's CENTRAL PARK 3.
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... adaptations, and tries to discover which problems of living and reproducing those adaptations evolved to solve. It grounds human behavior in evolutionary biology. Some critics believe that evolutionary psychology goes too far and ...
... adaptations, and tries to discover which problems of living and reproducing those adaptations evolved to solve. It grounds human behavior in evolutionary biology. Some critics believe that evolutionary psychology goes too far and ...
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... adaptations, but we do not know what biological functions many of them evolved to serve. Evolutionary biology works by one cardinal rule: to understand an adaptation, one has to understand its evolved function. The analysis of adaptations ...
... adaptations, but we do not know what biological functions many of them evolved to serve. Evolutionary biology works by one cardinal rule: to understand an adaptation, one has to understand its evolved function. The analysis of adaptations ...
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... adaptations like the human mind. Many theorists have accepted that some sort of positive-feedback process is probably required to explain why the human brain evolved to be so large so quickly. Sexual selection, especially a process ...
... adaptations like the human mind. Many theorists have accepted that some sort of positive-feedback process is probably required to explain why the human brain evolved to be so large so quickly. Sexual selection, especially a process ...
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... adaptations that it creates also tend to show some special features. Adaptations for courtship are usually highly developed in sexually mature adults but not in youth. They are usually displayed more conspicuously and noisily by males ...
... adaptations that it creates also tend to show some special features. Adaptations for courtship are usually highly developed in sexually mature adults but not in youth. They are usually displayed more conspicuously and noisily by males ...
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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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