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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... Biologists recognize that sexual selection through mate choice is a fickle , unpredictable , diversifying process . It takes species that make their livings in nearly identical ways and gives them radically different sexual ornaments ...
... Biologists recognize that sexual selection through mate choice is a fickle , unpredictable , diversifying process . It takes species that make their livings in nearly identical ways and gives them radically different sexual ornaments ...
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... 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 to human mental traits ...
... 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 to human mental traits ...
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... 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 should bear some resemblance to the minds of ordinary women and men as ...
... 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 should bear some resemblance to the minds of ordinary women and men as ...
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... 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 from sexism , anthropocentrism , and a misguided type ...
... 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 from sexism , anthropocentrism , and a misguided type ...
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... 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 choice is ...
... 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 choice is ...
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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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