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

Geoffrey Miller

The Mating Mind Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that seem most uniquely and profoundly hu...

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Modern Wisdom

The host mentioned Miller's book as a concise argument that human intelligence may be a sexually selected trait.

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There's a third possibility which almost never gets discussed, but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called the Mating Mind in which he says, actually, this looks a...

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The host mentioned Miller's book as a concise argument that human intelligence may be a sexually selected trait.

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There's a third possibility which almost never gets discussed, but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called the Mating Mind in which he says, actually, this looks awfully like a sexually selected feature.

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He mentioned GeoffreyMiller's The Mating Mind as another recommended title.

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The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Dr. Peterson mentioned Miller's hypothesis about creativity being a reliable indicator of genetic mutation load, making it attractive to potential mates.

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I'm just linking that to Jeffrey Miller's the hypothesis about creativity being a reliable indicator of genetic mutation load which is why it would be so sexy you know from from the selector point of...

— Episode: 177. Intimations of Creativity | Dr. Sco...

Episode: 177. Intimations of Creativity | Dr. Scott Barry K...

Dr. Peterson mentioned Miller's hypothesis about creativity being a reliable indicator of genetic mutation load, making it attractive to potential mates.

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I'm just linking that to Jeffrey Miller's the hypothesis about creativity being a reliable indicator of genetic mutation load which is why it would be so sexy you know from from the selector point of view.

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