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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... language , art , music , ideology , humor , and creative intelligence , fit these criteria quite well . However , traits with these features are sometimes not considered legitimate biological adaptations . Evolutionary psychologists ...
... language , art , music , ideology , humor , and creative intelligence , fit these criteria quite well . However , traits with these features are sometimes not considered legitimate biological adaptations . Evolutionary psychologists ...
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... language , imaginative ideologies , religion , and morality . How could evolution favor such apparently useless embellishments ? The fact that there are no good theories of these adaptations is one of science's secrets . Linguistics ...
... language , imaginative ideologies , religion , and morality . How could evolution favor such apparently useless embellishments ? The fact that there are no good theories of these adaptations is one of science's secrets . Linguistics ...
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... language , moral idealism , humor , or representational art . In The Language Instinct , Steven Pinker claimed that the elephant's trunk raises some of the same problems as human language : it is a large , complex adaptation that arose ...
... language , moral idealism , humor , or representational art . In The Language Instinct , Steven Pinker claimed that the elephant's trunk raises some of the same problems as human language : it is a large , complex adaptation that arose ...
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... language and creativity , happened to yield some completely unanticipated survival benefits in the last few thousand years : agriculture , architecture , writing , metalworking , firearms , medicine , and microchips . The usefulness of ...
... language and creativity , happened to yield some completely unanticipated survival benefits in the last few thousand years : agriculture , architecture , writing , metalworking , firearms , medicine , and microchips . The usefulness of ...
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... language . Instead of dancing around in physical space like normal animals , these primates use language to dance around in mindscapes of their own invention , playing with ideas . Talking about themselves gave our ancestors a unique ...
... language . Instead of dancing around in physical space like normal animals , these primates use language to dance around in mindscapes of their own invention , playing with ideas . Talking about themselves gave our ancestors a unique ...
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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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