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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... ideas from contemporary feminism and cultural theory , and from some of my intellectual heroes such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Thorstein Veblen . I won't pretend to be expert in all these topics . Outside our own areas of expertise ...
... ideas from contemporary feminism and cultural theory , and from some of my intellectual heroes such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Thorstein Veblen . I won't pretend to be expert in all these topics . Outside our own areas of expertise ...
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... Human evolution is the story of how that gateway evolved new security systems , and how our minds evolved to charm our way past the ever more vigilant gatekeepers . 2 Darwin's Prodigy The idea of sexual selection has a 32 THE MATING MIND.
... Human evolution is the story of how that gateway evolved new security systems , and how our minds evolved to charm our way past the ever more vigilant gatekeepers . 2 Darwin's Prodigy The idea of sexual selection has a 32 THE MATING MIND.
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... idea of sexual selection has a peculiar history that embodies the best and the worst of science . The best , because ... ideas about mate choice . The delay resulted not just from rational skepticism , but from a set of reactionary ...
... idea of sexual selection has a peculiar history that embodies the best and the worst of science . The best , because ... ideas about mate choice . The delay resulted not just from rational skepticism , but from a set of reactionary ...
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... idea to be so important that he featured it in the one book he was sure humans would read : his summary of the evidence for human evolution . However , Darwin was a subtle and strategic writer , often hiding his intentions . His ...
... idea to be so important that he featured it in the one book he was sure humans would read : his summary of the evidence for human evolution . However , Darwin was a subtle and strategic writer , often hiding his intentions . His ...
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... idea could explain three enigmas : the ubiquity across many species of ornaments that do not help survival , sex differences within species , and rapid evolutionary divergence between species . Darwin had no real explanation of why ...
... idea could explain three enigmas : the ubiquity across many species of ornaments that do not help survival , sex differences within species , and rapid evolutionary divergence between species . Darwin had no real explanation of why ...
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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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