The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature - Rilegato

Miller, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0385495161 ISBN 13: 9780385495165

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2000

Riassunto

Argues that the human brain, with its capacity for art, empathy, and wit, evolved in a distinct manner as a result of sexual selection and that these traits were favored simply because they are attractive to the opposite sex.

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Recensione:

"Sexual selection, Darwin's 'other' theory, has finally come in from the cold....One of the hottest topics in modern Darwinism. The idea that the human mind evolved as a sort of software peacock's tail has been mooted before, usually to be dismissed in favor of some alternative theory. Geoffrey Miller has really been the one to run with that ball, and he now brings his ideas and evidence together in this thoughtful, witty, and vividly written book. It is a work of advocacy, and Miller is a beguilingly skilled advocate. But there's nothing wrong with advocacy if you are right. And I think he just may be."
--Richard Dawkins

"Why does our species tell jokes, build monuments, compose sonatas, give to charity, compete in sports, follow fashion? Our endless inventiveness, our elaborate culture, seem to defy Darwinian explanation. Not so, says Geoffrey Miller. They are our sexual ornaments, our peacocks' tails, displaying our value to potential mates. This elegant, original, and lucid book is beguiling testimony to its own thesis: a fitting new feather in our cultural cap."
--Helena Cronin

"A brilliant and seductive book. It will sweep you off your feet. And, when you come to earth again, you'll find yourself seeing the human mind and its most prized creations with new eyes."
--Dr. Nicholas Humphrey, New School for Social Research

L'autore:

Geoffrey F. Miller is senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution at University College, London. Born in 1965 in Cincinnati, he studied at Columbia University and received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Stanford University. After moving to Europe, he worked at the Universities of Sussex and Nottingham and at the Max Planck Institute of Psychological Research in Munich. He lives in Surrey with his family.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385495161
• ISBN 13: 9780385495165
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 503