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

Geoffrey Miller · 2000

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What this book knows

Human minds evolved as sexual ornaments: intelligence, creativity, and art are courtship displays shaped by mate choice.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

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desire

Evolutionary psychology must become less Puritan and more Dionysian… the mind evolved by moonlight.
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mind-and-cognition

These works symbolize our unique human capacities for art, music, sports, religion, self-consciousness, and moral virtue, and they have troubled me.
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ambition-and-status

The Darwinian revolution could capture the citadel of human nature only by becoming more of a sexual revolution—giving more credit to sexual choice.
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