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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... animal evolved a brain heavier than one pound . Even then , brains heavier than a pound evolved only in the great apes , in several varieties of elephants and mammoths , and in a few dozen species of dolphins and whales . Chimpanzee ...
... animal evolved a brain heavier than one pound . Even then , brains heavier than a pound evolved only in the great apes , in several varieties of elephants and mammoths , and in a few dozen species of dolphins and whales . Chimpanzee ...
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... Evidence in the last decade has revealed how our ancestors evolved the ability to exploit energyrich foods such as game animals that could be hunted for meat , and underground tubers that could be dug up and cooked CENTRAL PARK 23.
... Evidence in the last decade has revealed how our ancestors evolved the ability to exploit energyrich foods such as game animals that could be hunted for meat , and underground tubers that could be dug up and cooked CENTRAL PARK 23.
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... animals , escaping from lions , or raiding other tribes . But our past sexual relationships may prove a useful guide to understanding the sexual choices that shaped our species . Each of our romantic histories goes back only a few years ...
... animals , escaping from lions , or raiding other tribes . But our past sexual relationships may prove a useful guide to understanding the sexual choices that shaped our species . Each of our romantic histories goes back only a few years ...
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... animals , especially males , have colorful plumage and melodious songs . These are often complex and costly traits . They usually have no apparent use in the animals ' daily routine of feeding , fleeing , and fighting . The animals do ...
... animals , especially males , have colorful plumage and melodious songs . These are often complex and costly traits . They usually have no apparent use in the animals ' daily routine of feeding , fleeing , and fighting . The animals do ...
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... animal ornamentation . In that epoch - making book he felt comfortable enough about sexual selection to devote three ... animals , and 70 pages on sexual selection in human evolution . Darwin was no longer troubled by tiny gold bugs or ...
... animal ornamentation . In that epoch - making book he felt comfortable enough about sexual selection to devote three ... animals , and 70 pages on sexual selection in human evolution . Darwin was no longer troubled by tiny gold bugs or ...
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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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