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The mating mind : how sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature / Geoffrey Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Geoffrey F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human evolution.
- Mate selection--History.
- Mate selection.
- Intellect.
- Brain--Evolution.
- Brain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 503 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, 2000.
- Summary:
- An evolutionary psychologist argues that our brains evolved not because of natural selection but because of sexual selection. Like the peacock's magnificent multicolored tail, the human brain is an extravagance whose sole advantage, he claims, is to attract a mate and pass on genes.
- Contents:
- 1 Central Park 1
- 2 Darwin's Prodigy 33
- 3 The Runaway Brain 68
- 4 A Mind Fit for Mating 99
- 5 Ornamental Genius 138
- 6 Courtship in the Pleistocene 177
- 7 Bodies of Evidence 224
- 8 Arts of Seduction 258
- 9 Virtues of Good Breeding 292
- 10 Cyrano and Scheherazade 341
- 11 The Wit to Woo 392.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-489) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0385495161
- OCLC:
- 43648482
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