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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... explain behavioral abilities in other animals ? Certainly , evolutionary psychology is concerned with sex . Researchers such as David Buss and Randy Thornhill have gathered impressive evidence that we have evolved sexual preferences ...
... explain behavioral abilities in other animals ? Certainly , evolutionary psychology is concerned with sex . Researchers such as David Buss and Randy Thornhill have gathered impressive evidence that we have evolved sexual preferences ...
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... over a century trying to explain the mind's evolution through natural selection for survival benefits . It has explained many human abilities , such as food preferences and fear of snakes , but it consistently fails to explain CENTRAL PARK ...
... over a century trying to explain the mind's evolution through natural selection for survival benefits . It has explained many human abilities , such as food preferences and fear of snakes , but it consistently fails to explain CENTRAL PARK ...
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... explain other abilities for decorative art , moral virtue , and witty conversation . It seems reasonable to ask whether sexual selection for reproductive benefits might account for these leftovers . This suggestion makes sexual ...
... explain other abilities for decorative art , moral virtue , and witty conversation . It seems reasonable to ask whether sexual selection for reproductive benefits might account for these leftovers . This suggestion makes sexual ...
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... explain any aspect of human nature that scientists can notice too . Sexual selection's reach seems to extend as far as psychology's subject matter . So be it . Scientists don't have to play fair against nature . Physics is full of ...
... explain any aspect of human nature that scientists can notice too . Sexual selection's reach seems to extend as far as psychology's subject matter . So be it . Scientists don't have to play fair against nature . Physics is full of ...
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... explain why one population happened to evolve a bizarre ornament that another similar population did not . Sexual Selection and Other Forms of Social Selection In the 1990s evolutionary psychologists reached a consensus that human ...
... explain why one population happened to evolve a bizarre ornament that another similar population did not . Sexual Selection and Other Forms of Social Selection In the 1990s evolutionary psychologists reached a consensus that human ...
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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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