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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... Fertilized by Insects showed how the perceptual and behavioral abilities of pollinators shape the evolution of flower color and form . In 1868 his massive two - volume work The Variation of Animals and Plants 46 THE MATING MIND.
... Fertilized by Insects showed how the perceptual and behavioral abilities of pollinators shape the evolution of flower color and form . In 1868 his massive two - volume work The Variation of Animals and Plants 46 THE MATING MIND.
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... colors , stripes , and marks , and ornamental appendages , have all been indirectly gained by the one sex or the other , through the influence of love and jealousy , through the appreciation of the beautiful in sound , color or form ...
... colors , stripes , and marks , and ornamental appendages , have all been indirectly gained by the one sex or the other , through the influence of love and jealousy , through the appreciation of the beautiful in sound , color or form ...
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... colors and loud songs unless inhibited by the sensible restraint of natural selection . Take a random animal , cut it in half , and you may see some brightly colored internal organs . Wallace pointed out that internal coloration cannot ...
... colors and loud songs unless inhibited by the sensible restraint of natural selection . Take a random animal , cut it in half , and you may see some brightly colored internal organs . Wallace pointed out that internal coloration cannot ...
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... colors as bright as the males of the species . In Wallace's view , this implied that sexual courtship by males one of ... color , form , song , dance , and self - expression , which the prim headmistress of natural selection must keep ...
... colors as bright as the males of the species . In Wallace's view , this implied that sexual courtship by males one of ... color , form , song , dance , and self - expression , which the prim headmistress of natural selection must keep ...
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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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