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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... apes did not evolve them. Even if the survivalist theory could take us from the world of natural history to our capacities for invention, commerce, and knowledge, it cannot account for the more ornamental and enjoyable aspects of human ...
... apes did not evolve them. Even if the survivalist theory could take us from the world of natural history to our capacities for invention, commerce, and knowledge, it cannot account for the more ornamental and enjoyable aspects of human ...
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... apes, but doubt that natural selection suffices to explain our minds. Despite being a committed Darwinian, I share these doubts. I do not think that natural selection for survival can explain the human mind. Our minds are entertaining ...
... apes, but doubt that natural selection suffices to explain our minds. Despite being a committed Darwinian, I share these doubts. I do not think that natural selection for survival can explain the human mind. Our minds are entertaining ...
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... apes), and one may evolve into us, and the other into Neanderthals. Sexual selection's positive-feedback dynamics ... ape brains was driven by selection for “Machiavellian intelligence” to outsmart, deceive, and manipulate one's social ...
... apes), and one may evolve into us, and the other into Neanderthals. Sexual selection's positive-feedback dynamics ... ape brains was driven by selection for “Machiavellian intelligence” to outsmart, deceive, and manipulate one's social ...
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... apes, in several varieties of elephants and mammoths, and in a few dozen species of dolphins and whales. Chimpanzee brains weigh one pound, our brains weigh three pounds, bottlenose dolphin brains weigh four pounds, elephant brains ...
... apes, in several varieties of elephants and mammoths, and in a few dozen species of dolphins and whales. Chimpanzee brains weigh one pound, our brains weigh three pounds, bottlenose dolphin brains weigh four pounds, elephant brains ...
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... apes have. As anthropologist Leslie Aiello has argued. since guts use a lot of energy, our smaller guts also increased our energy budget above what is available to other apes. The ability to exploit these new food sources, at a lower ...
... apes have. As anthropologist Leslie Aiello has argued. since guts use a lot of energy, our smaller guts also increased our energy budget above what is available to other apes. The ability to exploit these new food sources, at a lower ...
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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 |
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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