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  <title><![CDATA[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]]></title>
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  <default-description>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. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; 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. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; 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 re-examine 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. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Reader beware: You may never look at human nature the same way again.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>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</original-title>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is with good reason that I ought to agree with the conclusions of this book – I have two daughters and no sons.  I have never really thought of myself as beautiful and so it would have been nice to have objective proof of my beauty.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, and despite my unequivocal reward in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48782999">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 23 19:05:01 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is utter dribble.  In fact the more I think about it, the more it infuriates me because it disguises Western-centric racism as &quot;science&quot;.  Granted, I think I've questioned the validity of evolutionary psychology since reading Buss in FP, but this book simply served to confrim all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17460016">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters is essentially a pop introduction to evolutionary psychology.  The first chapter provides an overview of the field.  Subsequent chapters tackle various domains of human nature by posing seemingly controversial statements, then supporting them with evolutionar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12017284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why do beautiful people have more daughters ? Simply put, evolution helps pass on their genes in the most efficient way possible. According to evolutionary psychologists being attractive is the single most important factor  determining a woman's reproductive success. Therefore this is the trait most...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10918544">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9425986">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So those who know me know that I like to redux things to mammoth hunting.  AKA: boys can't multi-task because in the time of the mammoth all they needed to do was kill the mammoth....<br/>whereas women had to skin the mammoth, turn its meat over the spit, watch the children to make sure they didn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9425986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41764777">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good primer. I knew most of the stuff. Really easy read. Recommend as a pre &quot;Moral Animal&quot; read.<br/><br/>One thing that astonished me is that the Sperm Wars 10% illegitimate fact is the bottom of the spectrum. It could be as much as 30%. or it could be as low as 4%.<br/><br/>the evolu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41764777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14040182">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I checked this out from the library b/c I was intrigued by the title.  (Good job naming this book.)  It is written by evolutionary psychologists so that gives you an idea of where it's going.  It was somewhat thought-provoking and fascinating but also silly. The main idea is that we are driven by im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14040182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53594707">
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    <body><![CDATA[Evolutionary psychology is a very new science, and this is a book written for a popular audience to sell itself.  That is necessary, and it makes for mean conversation, but it is too vague and unsubstantiated for me.  I think I am supposed to run out to get the articles and books listed in the bibli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53594707">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Painfully uncomfortable.  One doesn't have to agree with the authors or the whole field of evolutionary psychology to be thoughtfully provoked.  The explanatory power of this theory is so convincing that I think that is what most people will have a problem with.  <br/><br/>There is something troub...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67573877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12466864">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book might be a bunch of hooey, but there are definitely some thought-provoking ideas here.  I would not recommedn this book for people who actually believe everything that they read, but if you like to think, and entertain possibilities, you might enjoy this one.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I found a good number of logic problems in this book, I thought it was a great introduction to the soon-to-be-huge field of evolutionary psychology.  As a Darwinian purist, I really thought that some of the conclusions were fast and loose.  And contrarily, I also felt the author was unfairl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54988092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40945942">
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    <body><![CDATA[Given my fluctuating contempt for the Standard Social Science Model, something like evolutionary psychology, a new field, appeals to my sense of the human condition - that man is an animal, that evolution did not stop at the neck, and that the perpetuation of the genetic line (sex) is the underlying...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40945942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great read. Even if you aren't one who typically reads science-y books, this will not disappoint you. (I picked it up out of curiosity off the library shelf while shelving books) It's set up like a question and answer book, but for adults, with questions like &quot;why do men prefer blonde bombshe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44941918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I literally read this book in a day. It has tons of interesting tid-bits of information.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating read.  I'm not sure I buy everything it said, but it looked at a number of questions from an evolutionary psychology stand.  Some of the questions it answered, besides the title question, were things like, &quot;Why do presidents have affairs?&quot;  and &quot;Why do men like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31139195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good introductory book into evolutionary psychology, the field of study that, in a nutshell, seeks to explain all of human behavior based on a purely biological/genetic model. I was first introduced to this field in college and was really interested in it, and so was excited for this book....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6328915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure I agree with all the assertions they put forth. Some of their explanations seem to be quite a leap based on modest evidence. Regardless, human behavior as studied through the lens of evolutionary psychology makse a lot more sense to me than through that of the social model. Some of the part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62799703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book on why humans do and act the way they do based on evolutionary psychology.  The first few chapters explain how evolution requires a relatively stable environment, which humans have not had in a very long time, so we basically have the same brain as the humans did 10,000 years ago...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62757943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is such a brilliant book!  it is very much like 'freakanomics' but with a biological slant.  the explanations on human sexuality are absolutely fascinating.  some stuff was laugh out loud funny--but maybe that is because i am a biologist.  at any rate, i think the ladies will be laughing harder...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64598197">more...</a>]]></body>
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