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

Evolution absolutely works with humans, it's just different criterias that's applied. Just like many thought the peacock was proof that evolution wasn't true: it was, the peacock just selected mates from other criterias than humans would do.

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But over the last two decades, biologists have taken up Darwin's insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest.

> But over the last two decades, biologists have taken up Darwin's insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest.
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> In this brilliantly ambitious and provocative book, evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller shows the evolutionary power of sexual choice and the reasons why our ancestors became attracted not only to pretty faces and healthy bodies, but to minds that were witty, articulate, generous, and conscious. The richness and subtlety of modern psychology help to reveal how the human mind evolved, like the peacock's tail and the elk's antlers, for courtship and mating.

You're elevating the thought process to a level above which I am speaking. Instinct will guide a pairing at a subconscious level long before "choice" enters into it.

Regarding your friend, it would be interesting to find out why he did not seek out reproduction. There is something to be found within that situation.

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