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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... Darwin , religious myths accounted for human origins ; after Darwin , evolution satisfactorily accounted for the human body , but not the human mind . In the 20th century , a unique scientific fascination with human psychology coexisted ...
... Darwin , religious myths accounted for human origins ; after Darwin , evolution satisfactorily accounted for the human body , but not the human mind . In the 20th century , a unique scientific fascination with human psychology coexisted ...
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... Darwin wanted an explanation for this rich array of diversity . Two decades before Darwin's trip , theologians such as William Paley had argued that God ornaments the world to inspire man's wonder and devotion . Darwin may have wondered ...
... Darwin wanted an explanation for this rich array of diversity . Two decades before Darwin's trip , theologians such as William Paley had argued that God ornaments the world to inspire man's wonder and devotion . Darwin may have wondered ...
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... Darwin started to understand animal ornamentation . In that epoch - making book he felt comfortable enough about sexual selection to devote three pages to it , but not confident enough to give it a whole chapter . From that acorn grew ...
... Darwin started to understand animal ornamentation . In that epoch - making book he felt comfortable enough about sexual selection to devote three pages to it , but not confident enough to give it a whole chapter . From that acorn grew ...
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... Darwin thinking ? The Expression of the Emotions provided direct evidence of psychological similarities between humans and other animals . One would think it belonged in ... Darwin didn't know about genes or DNA . But he DARWIN'S PRODIGY 37.
... Darwin thinking ? The Expression of the Emotions provided direct evidence of psychological similarities between humans and other animals . One would think it belonged in ... Darwin didn't know about genes or DNA . But he DARWIN'S PRODIGY 37.
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... Darwin used the familiar metaphor of artificial selection . Victorian England was still mostly agricultural and pastoral . People knew about artificial selection , in which farmers domesticate plants and animals by allowing some ...
... Darwin used the familiar metaphor of artificial selection . Victorian England was still mostly agricultural and pastoral . People knew about artificial selection , in which farmers domesticate plants and animals by allowing some ...
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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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