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

By G. Miller. 2000

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The Cognitive Differentiation-Integration Effort Hypothesis: A Synthesis between the Fitness Indicator and Life History Models of Human Intelligence (2011, background): “It also requires a keen sense of humor, which is an indicator of both intelligence and general fitness (Greengross & G. Miller, 2011; Kaufman, Kozbelt, Bromley, & G. Miller, 2007; Howrigan & MacDonald, 2008; G. Miller, 2000c).”
Showing Off in Humans: Male Generosity as a Mating Signal (2008, background): “What exactly does male generosity signal? The literature has put forward two rival hypotheses (Kelly and Dunbar, 2001; Miller, 2000 ).”
Protecting the self through consumption: Status goods as affirmational commodities (2010, background): “…1975), which suggests that individuals engage in costly behaviors (i.e., expend economic, social, and material resources) to signal unobservable-information about themselves (Miller, 2001), an individual can acquire status through status consistent behaviors (e.g., Frank, 2000; Veblen, 1899).”
Attractive Women Want it All: Good Genes, Economic Investment, Parenting Proclivities, and Emotional Commitment1 (2008, background): “been hypothesized to be one of the cardinal indicators of good genes (Gangestad et al., 2007; Miller, 2000).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Early domestication was thus an interspecific variation on sexual selection, in which the (cognitive) eye of the selector plays a crucial – but, of course, non-miraculous – role (Miller 2000).”
Monetary sacrifice among strangers is mediated by endogenous oxytocin release after physical contact (2008, background): “Sexual selection, rather than natural selection, may motivate altruistic sacrifice, an idea that can be traced to Zahavi & Zahavi (1997); Darwin (1871); Miller (2000) and others.”
Live Better by Consuming Less?: Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption? (2005, background): “In the hands of a whole new generation of biologists and psychologists these insights have become a new and powerful theory about human nature (Cronin 1991; Miller 2000; Ridley 1994; Wright 1994).”
Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism (2007, background): “Displays of resources, talent and other indicators of partner value are prominent aspects of human cultures (Barkow 1989; Dunbar et al. 1999; Miller 2000; Schaller and Crandall 2003; Alexander 2005).”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, methodology): “A number of theorists have suggested that one of the main evolutionary functions of language is courtship (e.g., Miller, 2000).”
Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection (2003, background): “Miller (1999, 2000) argues that women judge men s underlying genetic quality by their ‘‘cultural displays’’ of artistic expressions.”
Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective. (2015, background): “The first functional hypothesis holds that sports constitute culturally invented courtship displays that reliably advertise participant quality to the opposite sex (De Block & Dewitte, 2009; Miller, 2000).”
The road to everywhere : Evolution, complexity and progress in natural and artificial systems (2008, background): “Because courtship and mating are important aspects of social interactions, there is clearly much overlap between this position and that of Miller [126], which strongly emphasises sexual selection as a driving factor in the enormous growth of the human brain.”
Do sincere apologies need to be costly? Test of a costly signaling model of apology (2009, unknown): “Sundie, Cialdini, Miller, & Kenrick, 2007; Miller, 2000 ).”
Words as alleles: connecting language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift (2010, background): “According to another view, power laws are evidence that large and redundant voca-bularies may have evolved as a result of sexual selection (Miller 2000).”