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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... biologist . Except for seven revisions of The Origin that successively weakened the role of natural selection in ... biologists would continue his work on natural selection . So Darwin turned to the really hard problem : how the ...
... biologist . Except for seven revisions of The Origin that successively weakened the role of natural selection in ... biologists would continue his work on natural selection . So Darwin turned to the really hard problem : how the ...
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... biologists today , to explain ornaments that show minimal sex differences . On the other hand , Wallace did not consider male ornaments to be proper adaptations that evolved for some real purpose . Instead , he suggested that they were ...
... biologists today , to explain ornaments that show minimal sex differences . On the other hand , Wallace did not consider male ornaments to be proper adaptations that evolved for some real purpose . Instead , he suggested that they were ...
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... biologists considered them at least as plausible as Darwin's mate choice theory . Even more strangely , Wallace's energy - surplus idea foreshadowed Freud's speculation that human artistic display results from a sublimation of excess ...
... biologists considered them at least as plausible as Darwin's mate choice theory . Even more strangely , Wallace's energy - surplus idea foreshadowed Freud's speculation that human artistic display results from a sublimation of excess ...
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... biologists other than Darwin . The rejection was cloaked in scientific argumentation , but the motivations for rejection were not scientific . Many male scientists at the time wrote as if female humans were barely capable of cognition ...
... biologists other than Darwin . The rejection was cloaked in scientific argumentation , but the motivations for rejection were not scientific . Many male scientists at the time wrote as if female humans were barely capable of cognition ...
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... biologists as a historical curiosity . Especially hard hit was Darwin's claim that sexual choice played a major role in human evolution . Edward Westermarck's History of Human Marriage of 1894 spent hundreds of pages trying to undermine ...
... biologists as a historical curiosity . Especially hard hit was Darwin's claim that sexual choice played a major role in human evolution . Edward Westermarck's History of Human Marriage of 1894 spent hundreds of pages trying to undermine ...
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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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