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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... human abilities evolved. Sexual selection principles, not fossil evidence, may explain why we wasted so much of our energy on biological luxuries like talking, dancing, painting, laughing, playing sports, and inventing rituals. An ...
... human abilities evolved. Sexual selection principles, not fossil evidence, may explain why we wasted so much of our energy on biological luxuries like talking, dancing, painting, laughing, playing sports, and inventing rituals. An ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. humor, and creativity. Psychologist Robert Plomin and his collaborators have already identified the first specific gene associated with extremely high intelligence ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. humor, and creativity. Psychologist Robert Plomin and his collaborators have already identified the first specific gene associated with extremely high intelligence ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. much earlier than previously thought. It also shows that humans did not evolve from Neanderthals. Potentially, the same techniques could be applied to Homo erectus ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. much earlier than previously thought. It also shows that humans did not evolve from Neanderthals. Potentially, the same techniques could be applied to Homo erectus ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. personal lucidity as it is when we are mired in that mixture of caffeine, television, habit, and self-delusion that in modern society we call “ordinary consciousness ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. personal lucidity as it is when we are mired in that mixture of caffeine, television, habit, and self-delusion that in modern society we call “ordinary consciousness ...
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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 |
Cyrano and Scheherazade 34 | 341 |
The Wit to Woo | 392 |
Epilogue | 426 |
Acknowledgments | 434 |
Glossary | 436 |
Notes | 447 |
Bibliography | 467 |
Index | 491 |
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