The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human NatureAt 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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This overlooks the fact that biologists are developing ever more sophisticated ways of testing which adaptations have evolved through sexual selection, and many of these methods—including a range of new genetic analyses—can be applied ...
This overlooks the fact that biologists are developing ever more sophisticated ways of testing which adaptations have evolved through sexual selection, and many of these methods—including a range of new genetic analyses—can be applied ...
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For every theory of every adaptation, there is one demand that modern biologists make: show me the fitness! That is, show how this trait promoted survival or reproduction. Psychologically, the human mind as explained by the theory ...
For every theory of every adaptation, there is one demand that modern biologists make: show me the fitness! That is, show how this trait promoted survival or reproduction. Psychologically, the human mind as explained by the theory ...
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Over a century passed before biologists took seriously Darwin's most provocative ideas about mate choice. The delay resulted not just from rational skepticism, but from a set of reactionary prejudices deriving ...
Over a century passed before biologists took seriously Darwin's most provocative ideas about mate choice. The delay resulted not just from rational skepticism, but from a set of reactionary prejudices deriving ...
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Instead, most biologists after Darwin have asked, “How can we possibly believe that female animals choose with whom they mate?” The history of sexual selection theory is largely a history of this skepticism. The skepticism about female ...
Instead, most biologists after Darwin have asked, “How can we possibly believe that female animals choose with whom they mate?” The history of sexual selection theory is largely a history of this skepticism. The skepticism about female ...
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From The until his death, Darwin was as much an evolutionary psychologist as an evolutionary biologist. Except for seven revisions of 'I7u' ... He was also confident that other biologists would continue his work on natural selection.
From The until his death, Darwin was as much an evolutionary psychologist as an evolutionary biologist. Except for seven revisions of 'I7u' ... He was also confident that other biologists would continue his work on natural selection.
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| 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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| Название | The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature |
| Автор | Geoffrey Miller |
| Издатель | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307813746, 9780307813749 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 528 |
| Экспорт цитаты | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |