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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... capacities evolved originally as courtship ornaments, their uniqueness comes as no surprise. Nor should we be surprised at the lack of survival benefits while brain size was tripling. The brain's benefits were mainly reproductive. We ...
... capacities evolved originally as courtship ornaments, their uniqueness comes as no surprise. Nor should we be surprised at the lack of survival benefits while brain size was tripling. The brain's benefits were mainly reproductive. We ...
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... capacities and motivations originally shaped by sexual selection. Trained by years of explicit instruction, motivated by sophisticated status games, and with cultural records that allow knowledge to accumulate across generations, our ...
... capacities and motivations originally shaped by sexual selection. Trained by years of explicit instruction, motivated by sophisticated status games, and with cultural records that allow knowledge to accumulate across generations, our ...
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... capacities for visual, musical, linguistic, religious, and intellectual display. The same over-conservative reasoning would lcad us to say that human language must be only 4-.000 years old, because the archeological evidence for writing ...
... capacities for visual, musical, linguistic, religious, and intellectual display. The same over-conservative reasoning would lcad us to say that human language must be only 4-.000 years old, because the archeological evidence for writing ...
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... capacities of the human mind (the adaptations to be explained) and the principles of current evolutionary biology (the selection pressures that can explain them). Bones and stones can be valuable sources of evidence, but they become ...
... capacities of the human mind (the adaptations to be explained) and the principles of current evolutionary biology (the selection pressures that can explain them). Bones and stones can be valuable sources of evidence, but they become ...
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... capacities depend on genes, even when they leave no fossil or archeological records. After the Human Genome Project identifies all 80,000 or so human genes in the next couple of years, we can look forward to three further developments ...
... capacities depend on genes, even when they leave no fossil or archeological records. After the Human Genome Project identifies all 80,000 or so human genes in the next couple of years, we can look forward to three further developments ...
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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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