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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... important . Following their precedent , modern biology textbooks define natural selection to include every process that leads some genes to out - compete other genes by virtue of their survival or reproductive benefits . When one ...
... important . Following their precedent , modern biology textbooks define natural selection to include every process that leads some genes to out - compete other genes by virtue of their survival or reproductive benefits . When one ...
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... important , but mostly because they change the social scenery behind sexual selection . Social selection is like the political tension between the Montagues and Capulets . It matters largely because it influences the sexual prospects of ...
... important , but mostly because they change the social scenery behind sexual selection . Social selection is like the political tension between the Montagues and Capulets . It matters largely because it influences the sexual prospects of ...
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... important to appreciate , because virtually all of 20th - century science has tried to explain human mental evolution using natural selection alone . Even now , sexual selection is usually invoked only to explain the differences between ...
... important to appreciate , because virtually all of 20th - century science has tried to explain human mental evolution using natural selection alone . Even now , sexual selection is usually invoked only to explain the differences between ...
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... important human phenomena , such as creativity , charity , and the arts . This book tries very hard to avoid that particular type of reductionism . My theory suggests that our most cherished abilities were favored by the most ...
... important human phenomena , such as creativity , charity , and the arts . This book tries very hard to avoid that particular type of reductionism . My theory suggests that our most cherished abilities were favored by the most ...
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... important than classic fossils . A final limitation is that fossil and archeological evidence has proven much more informative about how our ancestors could afford the energy costs of large brains , than about what they actually used ...
... important than classic fossils . A final limitation is that fossil and archeological evidence has proven much more informative about how our ancestors could afford the energy costs of large brains , than about what they actually used ...
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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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