The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Miller, Geoffrey
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From Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since August 25, 1999
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503 Pp. Blue Cloth Spine, Gilt; Blue Boards. First Printing Indicated. 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 Complain About The Crap They Are Offered As Consumers. Seller Inventory # 050389
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped ...
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Where many evolutionary psychologists see the mind as a Swiss army knife, and cognitive science sees it as a computer, Miller compares it to an entertainment system, evolved to stimulate other brains. Taking up the baton from studies such as Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, it's a dizzyingly ambitious project, which would be impossibly vague without the ingenuity and irreverence that Miller brings to bear on it. Steeped in popular culture, the book mixes theories of runaway selection, fitness indicators, and sensory bias with explanations of why men tip more than women and how female choice shaped (quite literally) the penis. It also extols the sagacity of Mary Poppins. Indeed, Miller allows ideas to cascade at such a torrent that the steam given off can run the risk of being mistaken for hot air).
That large personalities can be as sexually enticing as oversize breasts or biceps may indeed prove comforting, but denuding sexual chemistry can be a curiously unsexy business, akin to analyzing humor. As a courting display of Miller's intellectual plumage, though, The Mating Mind is formidable, its agent-provocateur chest swelled with ideas and articulate conjecture. While occasionally his magpie instinct may loot fool's gold, overall it provides an accessible and attractive insight into modern Darwinism and the survival of the sexiest. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk
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