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Overview

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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We modern humans work hard to prove that we're an advanced species. Researchers Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa think that it's a losing battle. These evolutionary psychologists insist that we've never really transcended our prehistoric ancestors or, for that matter, our fellow primates; we just hide it better. To demonstrate their contention, they insist that men and women are still driven by 10,000-year-old impulses to find an optimal mate and produce healthy offspring. As the subtitle suggests, they link nearly every conceivable aspect of human activity to these primal drives; from selecting a favorite television show to finding religious faith. Sometimes politically correct, but always provocative.
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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. (Sept. 4)

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A lively excursion into the new, and still disputed, field of Evolutionary Psychology. In this introduction, Miller, who died at age 44 of Hodgkin's Disease before the book's completion, and Kanazawa ask readers to examine the life choices they've made and re-cast them as evolutionary destiny. A female reader out there may remember the time she tried to dye her hair blonde and came out looking like Ronald McDonald, while a male might cast his mind back to the night he got drunk on Jim Beam and swore to go out looking for the bastard who stole his woman away. In fact, think of almost any foolish, or even sensible, thing you've ever done, and the authors would explain it as the result of the irresistible force of sexual selection, a cornerstone of the arguments underlying Evolutionary Psychology. Why do women want to be blonde? Because, argue the authors, men prefer to mate with blonde women. Why do men prefer to mate with blonde women? Because hair darkens as it ages, and so blonde hair (pre-Clairol) is a sign of youth, and therefore greater fertility and health. Why do men want to perpetrate violence on sexual rivals? Because men are forever less certain of the paternity of a child than women can be of the maternity, and to care for a child not of your own lineage is to let your genes die with you. While the explanations often feel more like elaborate exercises in logic than true science (after all, blondes are not indigenous to all parts of the world, so cultural forces must come into play somewhere), the authors do maintain a peppy, sly tone throughout the book, making each explanation (to questions such as, "Why is Sexual Harassment so Persistent?" and "Why are diamonds a girl's bestfriend?") interesting, if not entirely persuasive. The tone sometimes shifts toward an exasperated defensiveness, but because this is a relatively new, still hotly contested discipline, perhaps this is to be expected. Provocative, entertaining and often wholly unconvincing. Agent: Andrew Stuart/The Stuart Agency

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780399534539
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/2/2008
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 289,316
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Satoshi Kanazawa received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona. His work has been covered in such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post.

Alan S. Miller was professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Japan's Hokkaido University.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 7, 2007

    Fascinating

    I found this book completely engrossing. A must read for everyone, particularly single women. It explains, based on extensive scientific reserch and observation, many of the behaviors, both men's and women's, that we have long wondered about.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2010

    Acceptance is the first step

    Anyone who has written a negative review about this book has not accepted the reality of who (as men and women) we really are. We are animals. It is Uptopian to believe otherwise.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 16, 2009

    We still think like cave people...

    This is one of the best scholarly books I have ever read. A solid treatise on the state of Evolutionary Psychology today that is unflinching and certainly not politically correct. Everything from sexual behavior to why we steal and kill and go to war.

    For those who look around and wonder why people do some of the strange things we do in everyday life, this book will make you say "OK, I get it now". Occasionally there are some far-fetched ideas, and the book doesn't have all the answers (especially were explaining lesbians is concerned) but overall, it would be hard for me to think that someone could read this book and not have at least some of their ideas about humanity changed in some way.

    This book is my new Bible.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 17, 2007

    nonsense

    I picked this book up while browsing mainly because of the catchy title, and read a great deal of it. The book is a series of soundbites to explain human behavior (and even biology) today against the backdrop of evolution. Much of what I read was nonsense and some of it was insulting with a political agenda masquerading as science. I sense that because Kanazawa is on the faculty of the London School of Ecnonomics this may be more a case of the emporer's new clothes rather than rigorous serious science.

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  • Posted September 14, 2011

    lay-person's introduction to evolutionary psychology

    This is a fascinating, lay-person's introduction to evolutionary psychology. Screw Freud, Darwin's the one who REALLY holds the answers to why we do what we do. I read this in two days.

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  • Posted August 8, 2009

    Caught my interest but...

    I read half of this book and lost interest. I would not recommend it new; buy it used.

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  • Posted December 24, 2008

    Evolutionary Pseudo-psychology

    I am mortified that by purchasing this book, I might have supported the "research" of pseudo-scientist Satoshi Kanazawa, the principle author. I urge potential buyers to at least google Kanazawa, whose research shows that African countries are entrenched in poverty because of the low IQs of Africans, that women (regardless of race or culture) want to look like Barbie (the blond one) and that men enjoy pornography because their feeble brains can't distinguish between porn and the real thing. I will leave it to the adventurous reader to find the even more ridiculous theory for why women don't like porn. Kanazawa begins with tenuous assumptions of what IS and uses some tricky methods of backwards induction and guesses of what WAS to explain WHY. He combines nuggets of research conducted by people who seem to understand the scientific method with his own half-baked ideas to reveal his true bigotry. Please, don't fall for the catchy title like I did. Kanazawa is trying to bring eugenics and misogyny back into legitimate scientific discourse, and while I am all for freedom of speech, I sure wish I hadn't bought the book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 12, 2007

    Poor job

    Week book, disappointing, the Author does not give answers and/or explain clearly the subjects, lacks of substance. I think, Kanazawa deep down knew this book will not be good. In the Preface, he mentions that the book was his partner's idea 'Alan S. Miller' and that before his death his partner was the one completing the first draft of some chapters but Kanazawa ended up reworking all the chapters his partner left. The title of the book was not even his own idea, it was Marian Lizzi an Editor, also at the end of his Acknowledgments he calls himself 'a delusional man' Saying all of this, how can you trust this book will be of any worth? as a matter of fact, how/who can trust having Kanazawa as an Assistant Professor or as a tenured Reader? Kanazawa is definitively in my NOT to read list.

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