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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... biological functions many of them evolved to serve . Evolutionary biology works by one cardinal rule : to understand an adaptation , one has to understand its evolved function . The analysis of adaptations is more than a collection of ...
... biological functions many of them evolved to serve . Evolutionary biology works by one cardinal rule : to understand an adaptation , one has to understand its evolved function . The analysis of adaptations is more than a collection of ...
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... biology textbooks define natural selection to include every process that leads some genes to out - compete other genes by virtue of their ... biological traits . Terms should be the servants of theories , not the masters 8 THE MATING MIND.
... biology textbooks define natural selection to include every process that leads some genes to out - compete other genes by virtue of their ... biological traits . Terms should be the servants of theories , not the masters 8 THE MATING MIND.
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... biological niche . The habitat includes the factors that matter to farmers : sunlight , wind , heat , rain , and land quality . The niche includes predators and prey , parasites and germs , and competitors from one's own species ...
... biological niche . The habitat includes the factors that matter to farmers : sunlight , wind , heat , rain , and land quality . The niche includes predators and prey , parasites and germs , and competitors from one's own species ...
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... biological adaptations . Evolutionary psychologists Steven Pinker and John Tooby have argued that our science should focus on human universals that have been optimized by evolution , no longer showing any significant differences between ...
... biological adaptations . Evolutionary psychologists Steven Pinker and John Tooby have argued that our science should focus on human universals that have been optimized by evolution , no longer showing any significant differences between ...
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... biology . Twenty years ago , this book could not have been written . Only since then have scientists come to realize how profoundly mate choice influences evolution . There has been a renaissance of interest in sexual selection , with ...
... biology . Twenty years ago , this book could not have been written . Only since then have scientists come to realize how profoundly mate choice influences evolution . There has been a renaissance of interest in sexual selection , with ...
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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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