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The Mating Mind

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First published: 1930
Pages: 432

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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller is a groundbreaking exploration of human evolution. In this book, Miller presents a novel theory: that the human mind itself evolved as a result of sexual selection. Rather than merely being a side effect of surplus brain size, traits such as consciousness, morality, creativity, language, and art were actually sexual attractors. Miller draws on Darwin’s theory of sexual selection, which he argues has been overshadowed by Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

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Geoffrey Miller

The Mating Mind argues that the human mind was shaped mainly by sexual selection rather than by survival pressure, so that art, humour, language and even morality are courtship display; the field remains divided over how much of that can be tested. Miller is an evolutionary psychologist at a New Mexico university.

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