Mating Mind How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

Name: Mating Mind How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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ISBN: 9780385495172

ISBN-10: 038549517X

ISBN-13: 9780385495172

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Authors: Geoffrey Miller, Geoffrey Miller

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At once a pioneering study of evolution and an accessible and lively reading experience, The Mating Mind marks the arrival of a prescient and provocative new science writer. Psychologist Geoffrey Miller 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…

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Central Park



Darwin's Prodigy



The Runaway Brain



A Mind Fit for Mating



Ornamental Genius



Courtship in the Pleistocene



Bodies of Evidence



Arts of Seduction



Virtues of Good Breeding



Cyrano and Scheherazade



The Wit to Woo


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index