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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... female choice was , Darwin knew , among his most daring and unanticipated . The theory of sexual selection was an intellectual bolt from the blue , and sexual selection through female choice was especially shocking . Darwin understood ...
... female choice was , Darwin knew , among his most daring and unanticipated . The theory of sexual selection was an intellectual bolt from the blue , and sexual selection through female choice was especially shocking . Darwin understood ...
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... female choice . The main biological questions after Darwin should have been , " Why does mate choice evolve , why are females choosier than males , and what kinds of adaptations can be produced by mate choice ? " The main psychological ...
... female choice . The main biological questions after Darwin should have been , " Why does mate choice evolve , why are females choosier than males , and what kinds of adaptations can be produced by mate choice ? " The main psychological ...
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... mating calls that sound like guttural gulping , belching , braying , and booming , giving rise to their vernacular ... mate choice could shape organic form was without scientific precedent . Second , sexual selection embodied Darwin's ...
... mating calls that sound like guttural gulping , belching , braying , and booming , giving rise to their vernacular ... mate choice could shape organic form was without scientific precedent . Second , sexual selection embodied Darwin's ...
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... selection are literally the brains and bodies of sexual rivals and potential mates , rather than the mindless pressures of a physical habitat or a biological niche . Psychology haunts biology with the specter of half - conscious mate choice ...
... selection are literally the brains and bodies of sexual rivals and potential mates , rather than the mindless pressures of a physical habitat or a biological niche . Psychology haunts biology with the specter of half - conscious mate choice ...
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... selection through mate choice was the crowning achievement of these investigations yet it was the one most vehemently rejected by his contemporaries . In the last passage that Darwin wrote on sexual selection in The Descent , he portrayed ...
... selection through mate choice was the crowning achievement of these investigations yet it was the one most vehemently rejected by his contemporaries . In the last passage that Darwin wrote on sexual selection in The Descent , he portrayed ...
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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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