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Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters by Satoshi Kanazawa & Alan S. Miller
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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 Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do

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Narrator Stephen Hoye

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Length 6 hours 11 minutes
Language English
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A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.



Contrary to conventional wisdom, our brains and bodies are hardwired to carry out an evolutionary mission that determines much of what we do, from life plans to everyday decisions.



With an accessible tone and a healthy disregard for political correctness, this lively and eminently readable book popularizes the latest research in a cutting-edge field of study—one that turns much of what we thought we knew about human nature upside-down.



Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, enjoy watching a favorite TV show, or feel scared walking alone at night, we are in part behaving as a human animal with its own unique nature—a nature that essentially stopped evolving 10,000 years ago. Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa reexamine some of the most popular and controversial topics of modern life and shed a whole new light on why we do the things we do.



Beware: You may never look at human nature the same way again.

Satoshi Kanazawa is Reader in Management and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously taught at Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana and was a postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary psychology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr Kanazawa received his MA in sociology from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Arizona. He lives in London.

Alan S. Miller served as a professor of social psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Hokkaido University, Japan, before his death in 2003. He has also worked for the Environmental Sciences wing of the Science Applications International Corporation. Miller earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington, and he is the author of over twenty-five articles in academic journals concerned with the areas of crime and deviant behavior, religion, and comparative social psychology,

Stephen Hoye has won thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious APA Audie Awards, including one for the New York Times bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. A graduate of London's Guildhall and a veteran of London's West End, Stephen has recorded many other notable titles, such as Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed.

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"An exuberant, accessible, exhilarating, intellectually aerobic workout of an introduction to the new science of human nature." ---David P. Barash, author of Madame Bovary's Ovaries Expand reviews
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