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 for language , art , music , ideology , humor , and creative intelligence , fit these criteria quite well . However , traits with these features are sometimes not considered legitimate biological adaptations . Evolutionary ...
... capacities for language , art , music , ideology , humor , and creative intelligence , fit these criteria quite well . However , traits with these features are sometimes not considered legitimate biological adaptations . Evolutionary ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... capacities for visual , musical , linguistic , religious , and intellectual display . The same over - conservative reasoning would lead us to say that human language must be only 4,000 years old , because the archeological evidence for ...
... capacities for visual , musical , linguistic , religious , and intellectual display . The same over - conservative reasoning would lead us to say that human language must be only 4,000 years old , because the archeological evidence for ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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