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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... colors , patterns , and shapes . Take two populations of primates , and they will evolve different hairstyles . Take two populations of hominids ( bipedal apes ) , and one may evolve into us , and the other into Neanderthals . Sexual ...
... colors , patterns , and shapes . Take two populations of primates , and they will evolve different hairstyles . Take two populations of hominids ( bipedal apes ) , and one may evolve into us , and the other into Neanderthals . Sexual ...
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... color of facial hair . If the human mind's most unusual capacities evolved originally as courtship ornaments , their uniqueness comes as no surprise . Nor should we be surprised at the lack of survival benefits while brain size was ...
... color of facial hair . If the human mind's most unusual capacities evolved originally as courtship ornaments , their uniqueness comes as no surprise . Nor should we be surprised at the lack of survival benefits while brain size was ...
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... colors , but nothing prepared the young naturalist for the richly ornamented flora and fauna of the tropics : iridescent humming birds visiting outlandish flowers ; beetles with carapaces of gold , sapphire , and ruby ; enigmatic ...
... colors , but nothing prepared the young naturalist for the richly ornamented flora and fauna of the tropics : iridescent humming birds visiting outlandish flowers ; beetles with carapaces of gold , sapphire , and ruby ; enigmatic ...
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... colors in their male suitors . In The Descent , Darwin argued that female choice could produce traits as extravagant as those shaped by artificial selection : can All animals present individual differences , and as man can modify his ...
... colors in their male suitors . In The Descent , Darwin argued that female choice could produce traits as extravagant as those shaped by artificial selection : can All animals present individual differences , and as man can modify his ...
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... color vision overlaps in sensitivity with that of many birds , so we can appreciate the colors and forms of bird plumage . But , as Darwin pointed out , our noses may be insensitive to the appealing scents that have been sexually ...
... color vision overlaps in sensitivity with that of many birds , so we can appreciate the colors and forms of bird plumage . But , as Darwin pointed out , our noses may be insensitive to the appealing scents that have been sexually ...
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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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