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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... human mental evolution . Through ten years of researching sexual selection and human evolution , since the beginning of my Ph.D. , it became clear to me that sexual selection theory offered valuable intelligence about aspects of human ...
... human mental evolution . Through ten years of researching sexual selection and human evolution , since the beginning of my Ph.D. , it became clear to me that sexual selection theory offered valuable intelligence about aspects of human ...
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... human nature that scientists can notice too . Sexual selection's reach seems to extend as far as psychology's ... mental abilities that look too excessive and expensive to have evolved for survival . This sexual choice view also sounds rather ...
... human nature that scientists can notice too . Sexual selection's reach seems to extend as far as psychology's ... mental abilities that look too excessive and expensive to have evolved for survival . This sexual choice view also sounds rather ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. sexual when we're using them . Sexual selection is a theory of evolutionary function , not a theory of subconscious motivation . When I argue that a particular human ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. sexual when we're using them . Sexual selection is a theory of evolutionary function , not a theory of subconscious motivation . When I argue that a particular human ...
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... human mental evolution that depict our ancestors as fully sexual beings capable of intelligent mate choice . The sexual choice idea is also timely because it counters the charge that evolutionary psychology is some sort of " biological ...
... human mental evolution that depict our ancestors as fully sexual beings capable of intelligent mate choice . The sexual choice idea is also timely because it counters the charge that evolutionary psychology is some sort of " biological ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. It began as an attempt to solve three basic problems concerning human mental evolution . These problems crop up as soon as we ask why we evolved certain abilities ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. It began as an attempt to solve three basic problems concerning human mental evolution . These problems crop up as soon as we ask why we evolved certain abilities ...
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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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