503 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine, Gilt; Blue Boards. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $27.50. Label Removal Residue And Smapp Date Stamp On Front Free Endpaper. Well Written But Polite, With Little Discussion How Statistical Biological Selection In Humans Results In Evolutionary Absurdity- Selection For Economic Prowess Resulting In Genetic Breeding Of An Entire Race Which Is Nearly Incapable Of Actually Building Anything With Their Own Hands, Joining Together To Evolve A Better Society, Or Effectively Complaining About The Crap They Are Offered As Consumers, But Excellent At Using Borrowed Money To Make A Living And Purchase What They Want.

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Titolo

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

Editore

Doubleday

Data di pubblicazione

2000

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0385495161

ISBN 13

9780385495165

Rilegatura

Hardcover

Edizione

1st Edition

Condizione

Fine

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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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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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