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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire Paperback – September 2, 2008

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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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That mouthful of a title says it all. According to Kanazawa, a media-savvy researcher whose studies of "beautiful people" have been covered by the BBC and the New York Times, and the late Miller, a professor of social psychology, evolutionary psychology explains almost everything about human behavior. Proponents of what they call "the Standard Social Science Model" believe that the human mind is exempt from biological pressures, while evolutionary psychologists hold that people are an animal species driven by animal needs. The authors suggest that human evolution stopped when agriculture began changing the world much faster than the world could change us, and now 10,000-year-old impulses to find the right mate and produce healthy offspring control nearly every aspect of our existence, from choosing jobs to religious belief. This accessible book opens the youthful field of evolutionary psychology wide for examination, with results often as disturbing as they are fascinating. ("Publishers Weekly")

aA powerful jump-starter for conversations about the nature of being human.a
a"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
aA rollicking bit of pop science.a
a"Los Angeles Times"
aAn exuberant, accessible, exhilarating, intellectually aerobic workout.a
aDavid P. Barash, author of "Madame Bovaryas Ovaries"

A powerful jump-starter for conversations about the nature of being human.
"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
A rollicking bit of pop science.
"Los Angeles Times"
An exuberant, accessible, exhilarating, intellectually aerobic workout.
David P. Barash, author of "Madame Bovary s Ovaries"

?A powerful jump-starter for conversations about the nature of being human.?
?"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

?A rollicking bit of pop science.?
?"Los Angeles Times"

?An exuberant, accessible, exhilarating, intellectually aerobic workout.?
?David P. Barash, author of "Madame 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.

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: TarcherPerigee; Reprint edition (September 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399534539
ISBN-13: 978-0399534539
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
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Average Customer Review: 115 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #99 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Evolutionary Psychology
- #715 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Gender Studies > General
- #777 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Social Psychology & Interactions

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Dan P. Bullard

Explains almost everything about human behavior

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I stumbled across this book working at the Vancouver Washington library Booknook and bought it for a dollar. I loved it so much I couldn't part with it but I wanted my beautiful daughter to have a copy so I ordered it on Amazon and had it shipped to her for Christmas. Kanazawa and Miller did a superb job explaining Evolutionary Psychology, the only theory that explains the entire spectrum of human behaviors. Want to know why being Gay doesn't necessarily mean you will be extinct? Want to know why it's dangerous for female store employees to heap too much attention on male customers? This Q&A book explains it all, and the writing is easy to understand and crystal clear.

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September 12, 2017

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I read this book for my AP Psychology class but it's a good ready for virtually anyone who desires the answers to those everyday questions that bug your brain in the shower.

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These authors failed "The Marshmallow Test"!

May 28, 2018

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Hoo-boy!
Where to start?
#1. The authors are stuck in the same quagmire that has entangled many of our best anthropological thinkers.
To wit -- they subscribe to the Myth-of-Monogamy foolishness that seems to have started with Desmond Morris & The Naked Ape back in 1967.
To wit -- that monogamy is innate with humankind.
Actually, most people -- men & women -- want to have many sexual partners.
This was true of our ancestral clans on the Pleistocene African savanna.
And it is true today -- but our cultures militate against free love.
#2. The authors ignore the scholarship amassed regarding the Bonobo, aka the "pygmy chimp."
There is no reference to this enlightening creature -- Pan paniscus -- in their entire book.
The promiscuous sexual model of the Bonobo is powerfully suggestive regarding human amatory nature.
It seems obvious that the social organization of the Bonobo compared to that of the Common Chimp should cause at least some of our more thoughtful thinkers to reflect on the possibility that our original social life was one of promiscuous frolicking!
#3. It's as simple as this -- as evolving proto-humans, we had 2 paths to choose between --
a] the promiscuous make-love-not-war choice of the Bonobo, or ...
b] the coercive bully-boy tactics of the Common Chimp, wherein a few males do most of the breeding.
#4. But to get there, one has to admit the possibility that -- in our Pleistocene savanna clans -- that Group Selection played a crucial role.
#5. On p. 20 they make reference to our savanna genesis, saying that we "... lived in small bands of 150 or so related individuals as hunter-gatherers ...." This idea of 150 people constituting a natural group has come down to us as "Dunbar's Number" -- see the excellent treatment on Wikipedia -- but they ignore his authorship.
#6. The authors failed the famous "Marshmallow Test" in that they made up their minds way too soon.
I mean -- they took the easy way out of accepting the Myth-of-Monogamy.
#7. All of our anthropological thinkers -- & our philosophers too -- they need to try to answer this conundrum.
To wit --
Where did we get our infinitely fine-tuned appreciation of beauty?
And our infinite capacity for empathy?
And our innate sense of fairness?
And our nearly universal need to contribute to our community?
There seem to me to be 3 possible answers --
#1] god gave them to us ... or --
#2] we got them in our 3-million-year sojourn on the African Pleistocene savanna ... or --
#3] we got them from our cultures after we left the savanna for civilization 60,000 years ago.
I think we got them in #2].
A lot can happen in 3 million years!

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Gregory S.

If you want a different view on things then this is the book for you!!!

October 26, 2016

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An exceptional book. It really gets you thinking about the way people behave. The book is very informative and gives great examples and is based on science. The book makes you question some of your preconceived ideas - at least it did for me. The book covers a whole range of subjects and is a really interesting read.

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MariyV

Know yourself better

October 7, 2015

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Very interesting point of view, which gives explanation for many things humans do or don't do or do different way. Answers many questions too. The best thing- it is written by two professors, but is not 1500 pages. Short, simple and pleasure to read. Seems to be true too.

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Robert

Must read

July 27, 2017

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An outstanding work of scholarship that greatly moves forward our understand of human behavior.

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Kayla Euker

Love it! Great way to expand

December 20, 2016

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Totally different perspective on society. Love it! Great way to expand thinking

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Gabe

Makes sense of lots of subjects!

February 3, 2018

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Regardless of whether or not you agree it’s hard to argue with the authors’ ability to logical piece together answers through evolutionary psychology to the questions many of us have, I highly recommend this book to gain highly plausible answers to why we humans do what we do :D

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