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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... genes that must underlie each of the human mental adaptations analyzed in this book . However , the genetic evidence that will emerge in the coming years will probably render my ideas even the apparently most speculative ones fully ...
... genes that must underlie each of the human mental adaptations analyzed in this book . However , the genetic evidence that will emerge in the coming years will probably render my ideas even the apparently most speculative ones fully ...
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... genes , from our own parents , that built our own minds , over our own lifetime . Equally , we are talking about the origins of the genes that built the mind and body of the first person you ever fell in love with , and the last person ...
... genes , from our own parents , that built our own minds , over our own lifetime . Equally , we are talking about the origins of the genes that built the mind and body of the first person you ever fell in love with , and the last person ...
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... genetics has proven surprisingly useful to me . Such research bears directly on the key questions in sexual selection : how do ... genes . But in evolutionary psychology we have to deal with evolution , and that means paying attention to ...
... genetics has proven surprisingly useful to me . Such research bears directly on the key questions in sexual selection : how do ... genes . But in evolutionary psychology we have to deal with evolution , and that means paying attention to ...
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... genes goes back millions . We are here only because our genes enjoyed an unbroken series of successful sexual relationships in every single generation since animals with eyes and brains first evolved half a billion years ago . In each ...
... genes goes back millions . We are here only because our genes enjoyed an unbroken series of successful sexual relationships in every single generation since animals with eyes and brains first evolved half a billion years ago . In each ...
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... genetics . The rediscovery around 1900 of Mendel's work on genetics distracted biologists from Darwin's ideas . For young biologists at the turn of that century , genes were the way forward . Sexual selection was dead , and even natural ...
... genetics . The rediscovery around 1900 of Mendel's work on genetics distracted biologists from Darwin's ideas . For young biologists at the turn of that century , genes were the way forward . Sexual selection was dead , and even natural ...
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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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