The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human NatureKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 21 dic 2011 - 528 páginas 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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... individuals , it can potentially explain any aspect of human nature that scientists can notice too . Sexual selection's reach seems to extend as far as psychology's subject matter . So be it . Scientists don't have to play fair against ...
... individuals , it can potentially explain any aspect of human nature that scientists can notice too . Sexual selection's reach seems to extend as far as psychology's subject matter . So be it . Scientists don't have to play fair against ...
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... individuals , and those differences are often genetically heritable . ( " Heritable " implies that some proportion of the differences between individuals in a particular trait are due to genetic differences between individuals . ) As we ...
... individuals , and those differences are often genetically heritable . ( " Heritable " implies that some proportion of the differences between individuals in a particular trait are due to genetic differences between individuals . ) As we ...
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... individuals . Arguably , one could not ask for a worse correlation between growth in a biological organ and evidence of its supposed survival benefits . Our ancestors of a hundred thousand years ago were already anatomically modern ...
... individuals . Arguably , one could not ask for a worse correlation between growth in a biological organ and evidence of its supposed survival benefits . Our ancestors of a hundred thousand years ago were already anatomically modern ...
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... individual differences that give survival or reproductive advantages over other individuals . Many recent books about the human mind's evolution have offered radical new ideas about how evolution works , but have described the mind's ...
... individual differences that give survival or reproductive advantages over other individuals . Many recent books about the human mind's evolution have offered radical new ideas about how evolution works , but have described the mind's ...
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... individual differences in survival ability . It cannot favor traits opposed to survival . Since most ornaments ... individuals of one sex , generally the males , for the possession of the other sex . The result is not death to the ...
... individual differences in survival ability . It cannot favor traits opposed to survival . Since most ornaments ... individuals of one sex , generally the males , for the possession of the other sex . The result is not death to the ...
Índice
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33 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey F. Miller Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Geoffrey Miller Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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