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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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller ... reproduction . Experiments that investigate how minds process arbitrary ... sexual selection : how do traits differ between individuals , how can those differences ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller ... reproduction . Experiments that investigate how minds process arbitrary ... sexual selection : how do traits differ between individuals , how can those differences ...
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... sexual reproduction . If an animal doesn't have sex , its heritable traits will die with it , and it will leave no hereditary trace in the next generation . As far as evolution is concerned , the animal may as well have died in infancy ...
... sexual reproduction . If an animal doesn't have sex , its heritable traits will die with it , and it will leave no hereditary trace in the next generation . As far as evolution is concerned , the animal may as well have died in infancy ...
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... sexual tastes ? Biology students now are usually taught that sexual selection is a subset of natural selection , and ... reproduction . Darwin knew that Herbert Spencer's term " survival of the fittest " could be misleading . Heritable ...
... sexual tastes ? Biology students now are usually taught that sexual selection is a subset of natural selection , and ... reproduction . Darwin knew that Herbert Spencer's term " survival of the fittest " could be misleading . Heritable ...
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller ... sexually selected in other mammals . We mistakenly perceive most mammals as relatively unornamented . Even where our ... reproduction rather than DARWIN'S PRODIGY 45.
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller ... sexually selected in other mammals . We mistakenly perceive most mammals as relatively unornamented . Even where our ... reproduction rather than DARWIN'S PRODIGY 45.
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How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. evolution was a matter of differences in reproduction rather than just differences in survival . Animals expend their very lives in the pursuit of mates , against ...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller. evolution was a matter of differences in reproduction rather than just differences in survival . Animals expend their very lives in the pursuit of mates , against ...
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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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