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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... species , not through some unique combination of survival challenges , but through the species setting itself a strange new game of reproduction . They started selecting one another for their brains . Those brains won't invent ...
... species , not through some unique combination of survival challenges , but through the species setting itself a strange new game of reproduction . They started selecting one another for their brains . Those brains won't invent ...
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... species are minor compared with differences across species , so it can be useful to analyze " the human mind " as distinct from " the chimpanzee mind " or " the mind of the blue - footed booby . " Finally , any theory of human origins ...
... species are minor compared with differences across species , so it can be useful to analyze " the human mind " as distinct from " the chimpanzee mind " or " the mind of the blue - footed booby . " Finally , any theory of human origins ...
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... Species in 1859 , Darwin started to understand animal ornamentation . In that epoch - making book he felt comfortable enough about sexual selection to devote three pages to it , but not confident enough to give it a whole chapter . From ...
... Species in 1859 , Darwin started to understand animal ornamentation . In that epoch - making book he felt comfortable enough about sexual selection to devote three pages to it , but not confident enough to give it a whole chapter . From ...
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... species , any traits that help in competing for sexual mates will tend to spread through the species . These traits may evolve even if they reduce survival ability . While natural selection adapts species to their environments , sexual ...
... species , any traits that help in competing for sexual mates will tend to spread through the species . These traits may evolve even if they reduce survival ability . While natural selection adapts species to their environments , sexual ...
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... species by humans for their economic , aesthetic , or alimentary value . Natural selection referred to competition within or between species that affects relative survival ability . Sexual selection referred to sexual competition within ...
... species by humans for their economic , aesthetic , or alimentary value . Natural selection referred to competition within or between species that affects relative survival ability . Sexual selection referred to sexual competition within ...
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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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