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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... costly to grow and maintain , that they must have arisen through direct selection for some important biological function . To date , it has proven very difficult to propose a biological function for human creative intelligence that fits ...
... costly to grow and maintain , that they must have arisen through direct selection for some important biological function . To date , it has proven very difficult to propose a biological function for human creative intelligence that fits ...
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... costly and difficult that less capable individuals may not bother to produce them at all . For art to qualify as an evolved human adaptation , not everyone has to produce art , and not everyone has to show the same artistic ability . On ...
... costly and difficult that less capable individuals may not bother to produce them at all . For art to qualify as an evolved human adaptation , not everyone has to produce art , and not everyone has to show the same artistic ability . On ...
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... costly organ like the brain , without any major survival benefits becoming apparent until long after the organ stopped expanding ? The third problem is that nobody has been able to suggest any plausible survival payoffs for most of the ...
... costly organ like the brain , without any major survival benefits becoming apparent until long after the organ stopped expanding ? The third problem is that nobody has been able to suggest any plausible survival payoffs for most of the ...
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... costly investment in big brains today may be justified by cultural riches tomorrow . To understand the mind's evolution , it is probably best to forget everything one knows about human history and human civilization . Pretend that the ...
... costly investment in big brains today may be justified by cultural riches tomorrow . To understand the mind's evolution , it is probably best to forget everything one knows about human history and human civilization . Pretend that the ...
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... costly traits evolution might have favored . But a higher energy budget does not in itself explain why our brains expanded , or why any of our distinctive human abilities evolved . Sexual selection principles , not fossil evidence , may ...
... costly traits evolution might have favored . But a higher energy budget does not in itself explain why our brains expanded , or why any of our distinctive human abilities evolved . Sexual selection principles , not fossil evidence , may ...
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Darwins Prodigy | 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 |
Virtues of Good Breeding | 292 |
Cyrano and Scheherazade | 341 |
The Wit to Woo | 392 |
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