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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologis Paperback - 2008

by Alan Miller; Satoshi Kanazawa

In their lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes behavior, Miller and Kanazawa reexamine some of the most popular and controversial topics of modern life, and shed a whole new light on why people do the things they do.


Summary

Now available in paperback?a provocative new look at biology, evolution, and human behavior ?as disturbing [as it is] fascinating? (Publishers Weekly).

Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female? Why aren?t there more women on death row? Why do so many male politicians ruin their careers with sex scandals? Why and how do we really fall in love? This engaging book uses the latest research from the field of evolutionary psychology to shed light on why we do the things we do?from life plans to everyday decisions. With a healthy disregard for political correctness, Miller and Kanazawa reexamine the fact that our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission? an inescapable human nature that actually stopped evolving about 10,000 years ago.

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  • Title Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologis
  • Author Alan Miller; Satoshi Kanazawa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tarcherperigee
  • Date 2008-09-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780399534539 / 0399534539
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.54 x 0.69 in (20.73 x 14.07 x 1.75 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.7

Media reviews

'A powerful jump-starter for conversations about thenature of being human.'
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

'A rollicking bit of pop science.'
Los Angeles Times

'An exuberant, accessible, exhilarating, intellectuallyaerobic workout.'
David P. Barash, author ofMadame Bovary's Ovaries

About the author

Alan S. Miller was a professor of behavioral science at Hokkaido University and an affiliate associate professor of sociology at the University of Washington. He was the coauthor, with Satoshi Kanazawa, of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire--Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do, Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes: How Evolution Shaped the Way We Behave and Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan.

Satoshi Kanazawa is a British-American evolutionary psychologist who is currently a reader in management at the London School of Economics. He is the coauthor, with Alan Miller, of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire--Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do; Why Men Gamble and Women Buy Shoes: How Evolution Shaped the Way We Behave; and Order by Accident: The Origins and Consequences of Conformity in Contemporary Japan.

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