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. religion and technological innovation . If these human abilities emerged so recently in Europe , we would not expect to find them among African or Australian peoples ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. religion and technological innovation . If these human abilities emerged so recently in Europe , we would not expect to find them among African or Australian peoples ...
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... 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 explain why ...
... 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 explain why ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. comparative analysis of present adaptations , I am in fact proposing something rather conservative : that the evolutionary psychology of the human mind can play by ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. comparative analysis of present adaptations , I am in fact proposing something rather conservative : that the evolutionary psychology of the human mind can play by ...
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... human evolution and human psychology . I cannot yet show you the many 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 ...
... human evolution and human psychology . I cannot yet show you the many 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 ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. many areas of science , including psychology , anthropology , evolutionary theory , primatology , archeology , cognitive science , game theory , and behavior ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. many areas of science , including psychology , anthropology , evolutionary theory , primatology , archeology , cognitive science , game theory , and behavior ...
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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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