The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (67 page)

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Authors: Geoffrey Miller

Tags: #Evolution, #Science, #Life Sciences

BOOK: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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virtues
Behavioral abilities and motivations that are socially approved and sexually desired.

waste
The apparently pointless costs (in time, energy, resources, and risk) of sexual display that keep the displays reliable as indicators of fitness (in biology) or wealth (in modern culture).

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