The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (67 page)
Read The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature Online
Authors: Geoffrey Miller
Tags: #Evolution, #Science, #Life Sciences
BOOK: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
10.52Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
virtues
Behavioral abilities and motivations that are socially approved and sexually desired.
waste
The apparently pointless costs (in time, energy, resources, and risk) of sexual display that keep the displays reliable as indicators of fitness (in biology) or wealth (in modern culture).
Other books
Worth It by Nicki DeStasi
Damage Control by John Gilstrap
Regeneration by Stephanie Saulter
End of Days by Max Turner
Revolution Business by Charles Stross
Alive in Alaska by T. A. Martin
The Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook
Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine by Maximillian Potter
The Big Eye by Max Ehrlich
The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin
