In this interview, Geoffrey Miller deals with a wide range of topics that
have been discussed on this list -- among them, sexual selection and its
relationship to the evolution of language and music, and behavior genetic
research on intelligence.
Ian Jobling
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Subject: [evol-psych] A Talk with Geoffrey Miller: Sexual selection and the
mind
> SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE MIND
> A Talk with Geoffrey Miller
>
> Introduction by
> John Brockman
>
> Geoffrey Miller is known for his research which focuses on evolutionary
> psychology and sexual selection. In this regard, his work is in the
> tradition of scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and
> Steven Pinker. In support of his views on sexual selection, his published
> academic papers, conference talks, and colloquia, range across the areas
> of visual perception, cognition, learning, robotics, neural networks,
> genetic algorithms, human mate choice, evolutionary game theory, and the
> origins of language, music, culture, intelligence, ideology, and
> consciousness.
>
> Miller believes that our minds evolved not as survival machines, but as
> courtship machines."Evolution is driven not just by natural selection for
> survival, but by an equally important process that Darwin called sexual
> selection through mate choice.," he has noted. He proposes that the human
> mind's most impressive, baffling abilities are courtship tools, evolved to
> attract and entertain sexual partners. By switching from a
> survival-centered view of evolution to a courtship-centered view, he
> attempts to show how we can understand the mysteries of mind.
>
> -JB
>
> The Talk...
>
> -----
>
> GEOFFREY F. MILLER, is an evolutionary psychologist at Centre for Economic
> Learning and Social Evolution, University College London. He is the
> author of Courting Minds: How Sexual Choice Shaped Human
> Nature(forthcoming).
Go to this address for the interview:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/miller/index.html
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