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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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. generations , and they will probably end up looking very different . Take two initially indistinguishable populations of toucans , let them choose their sexual ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. generations , and they will probably end up looking very different . Take two initially indistinguishable populations of toucans , let them choose their sexual ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. understood , most powerful , most creative , most direct , and most fundamental form of social selection . From an evolutionary perspective , social competition ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. understood , most powerful , most creative , most direct , and most fundamental form of social selection . From an evolutionary perspective , social competition ...
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... human mental evolution . These problems crop up as soon as we ask why we evolved certain abilities that other species did not evolve . The first problem is that really large brains and complex minds arose very late in evolution and in ...
... human mental evolution . These problems crop up as soon as we ask why we evolved certain abilities that other species did not evolve . The first problem is that really large brains and complex minds arose very late in evolution and in ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. cats and monkeys expanded in similar ways , without evolving such mental embellishments . Most theories of human evolution attempt to solve only one of these three ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. cats and monkeys expanded in similar ways , without evolving such mental embellishments . Most theories of human evolution attempt to solve only one of these three ...
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... human mental evolution is usually expected to present a speculative chronology of what evolved when , and to show how the current fossil and archeological data support that chronology . I will attempt neither , because I think these ...
... human mental evolution is usually expected to present a speculative chronology of what evolved when , and to show how the current fossil and archeological data support that chronology . I will attempt neither , because I think these ...
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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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