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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... Sexual selection may drive species to extinction , but that is no argument against its existence . Species do go extinct , appallingly often . Perhaps the ancient Irish elk went extinct because their sexual ornaments antlers over six ...
... Sexual selection may drive species to extinction , but that is no argument against its existence . Species do go extinct , appallingly often . Perhaps the ancient Irish elk went extinct because their sexual ornaments antlers over six ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. left on males . In hundreds of species , he analyzed the bodily and behavioral ornaments of males that may have been shaped through female choice . The Descent ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. left on males . In hundreds of species , he analyzed the bodily and behavioral ornaments of males that may have been shaped through female choice . The Descent ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. assumptions about what is perceivable and what is attractive . Usually , we can appreciate the beauty of sexual ornaments in other species only because our senses ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. assumptions about what is perceivable and what is attractive . Usually , we can appreciate the beauty of sexual ornaments in other species only because our senses ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. The fallacious criticisms developed by Wallace are worth outlining because they continue to be reinvented even now . Wallace distinguished between ornaments that ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. The fallacious criticisms developed by Wallace are worth outlining because they continue to be reinvented even now . Wallace distinguished between ornaments that ...
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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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