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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... Animals . What was Darwin thinking ? The Expression of the Emotions provided direct evidence of psychological similarities between humans and other animals . One would think it belonged in The Descent , if the book's sole object was to ...
... Animals . What was Darwin thinking ? The Expression of the Emotions provided direct evidence of psychological similarities between humans and other animals . One would think it belonged in The Descent , if the book's sole object was to ...
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... animals by allowing some individuals to breed and others not . Darwin had already used this barnyard type of ... animals may seem strained . But for Darwin there was no essential difference between human minds . and animal minds : both ...
... animals by allowing some individuals to breed and others not . Darwin had already used this barnyard type of ... animals may seem strained . But for Darwin there was no essential difference between human minds . and animal minds : both ...
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... animals . This is because courtship behavior and selective mate choice behavior are best carried out by mobile animals with eyes , ears , and nervous systems . The mate choice mechanisms that drive sexual selection are much more similar ...
... animals . This is because courtship behavior and selective mate choice behavior are best carried out by mobile animals with eyes , ears , and nervous systems . The mate choice mechanisms that drive sexual selection are much more similar ...
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... animals , and compared with their own ancestors . The other result is very fast divergence between species . The weaponry and ornamentation of one species can go off in a very different direction from the weaponry and ornamentation of a ...
... animals , and compared with their own ancestors . The other result is very fast divergence between species . The weaponry and ornamentation of one species can go off in a very different direction from the weaponry and ornamentation of a ...
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... animals would challenge Victorian social attitudes . To bolster the case for female choice in The Descent , Darwin relied heavily on the analogy with artificial selection . His twovolume study of domestication in 1868 showed how human ...
... animals would challenge Victorian social attitudes . To bolster the case for female choice in The Descent , Darwin relied heavily on the analogy with artificial selection . His twovolume study of domestication in 1868 showed how human ...
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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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