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 ) , and one may evolve into us , and the other into Neanderthals . Sexual selection's positive - feedback ... 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 ... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... apes . Research centers in Atlanta and Leipzig are already pushing for the development of a Chimpanzee Genome Project . Since 1975 , geneticists have been using a method called DNA hybridization to show that our DNA is roughly 98 ...
... apes . Research centers in Atlanta and Leipzig are already pushing for the development of a Chimpanzee Genome Project . Since 1975 , geneticists have been using a method called DNA hybridization to show that our DNA is roughly 98 ...
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... ape - like ancestors . The rest concentrates on sexual selection , including 500 pages on sexual selection in other animals , and 70 pages on sexual selection in human evolution . Darwin was no longer troubled by tiny gold bugs or ...
... ape - like ancestors . The rest concentrates on sexual selection , including 500 pages on sexual selection in other animals , and 70 pages on sexual selection in human evolution . Darwin was no longer troubled by tiny gold bugs or ...
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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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