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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... ancestors could not easily perceive one another's thoughts , but once language had arrived , thought itself became subject to sexual selection . Through language , and other new forms of expression such as art and music , our ancestors ...
... ancestors could not easily perceive one another's thoughts , but once language had arrived , thought itself became subject to sexual selection . Through language , and other new forms of expression such as art and music , our ancestors ...
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... ancestors . It doesn't reduce psychology to biology , but sees psychology as a driving force in biological evolution . It portrays our ancestors ' minds as both products and consumers evolving in the free market of sexual choice . My ...
... ancestors . It doesn't reduce psychology to biology , but sees psychology as a driving force in biological evolution . It portrays our ancestors ' minds as both products and consumers evolving in the free market of sexual choice . My ...
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... ancestors between two and a half million years ago and a hundred thousand years ago . Yet for most of this period our ancestors continued to make the same kind of stone handaxes . Technological innovation was at a standstill during most ...
... ancestors between two and a half million years ago and a hundred thousand years ago . Yet for most of this period our ancestors continued to make the same kind of stone handaxes . Technological innovation was at a standstill during most ...
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... ancestors in spreading from equatorial Africa across similar latitudes in Asia . Then problem three can point out that many smaller - brained mammals such as cats and monkeys expanded in similar ways , without evolving 18 THE MATING MIND.
... ancestors in spreading from equatorial Africa across similar latitudes in Asia . Then problem three can point out that many smaller - brained mammals such as cats and monkeys expanded in similar ways , without evolving 18 THE MATING MIND.
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... ancestors of the elephant to split apart very quickly into dozens of species of mammoths , mastodons , and elephants , in an evolutionary pattern called an " adaptive radiation . " These species all had trunks , and they thrived all ...
... ancestors of the elephant to split apart very quickly into dozens of species of mammoths , mastodons , and elephants , in an evolutionary pattern called an " adaptive radiation . " These species all had trunks , and they thrived all ...
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Darwins Prodigy | 33 |
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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