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Did sexual selection make humans brainy and artistic?
Birds sing to attract mates, so what about humans? Are our jokes, stories, guitar strumming just part of an elaborately programmed mating strategy? We all know how much young girls fall for rock stars. Here are three reviews of Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind. Click here for a good summary and short critique, here for an outright critique, and here for an account of why Miller's views are not always so popular. Thanks to www.politicaltheory.info for the links.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 4, 2004 at 08:12 AM in Science | Permalink
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