A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women(2nd edn)
A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women(2nd edn)
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她自己的想法：女性的进化心理学（第二版）
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10.5860/choice.51-4727
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
A. Campbell
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A. Campbell
* 一本极具争议的书，挑战了当前关于女性的进化论思想。
* 一本流行的进化心理学领域的新书
* 进化论的动态解释
人类进化理论将祖先男性描绘成活跃的个体，他们通过睾丸激素驱动的竞争塑造后代，在生殖赢家和输家之间创造了一条关键的鸿沟。但在这种进化思想中，女性还能扮演什么角色呢？她们的角色被限制在仅仅是男性竞争果实的消费者，接受男性获胜的基因传给她们的孩子。由于缺乏相互竞争的需要和能力，女性在生殖风险中既不是赢家也不是输家，因此对驱动选择的遗传变异性毫无贡献。女权主义者对这种进化方法不屑一顾，这有什么奇怪的吗？许多人试图忽视进化论对我们理解女性的贡献？但是，女性真的只是整个进化过程中的一个小角色吗？难道他们没有发挥自己的作用，确保他们的生殖成功？在这本非常容易理解和发人深省的新书中，安妮坎贝尔挑战了女性在进化论中的被动角色，并纠正了进化论写作中目前的偏见。她引导我们了解进化论的基础知识，提出女性已经制定了自己的战略前进道路，通过自己的竞争、对抗、侵略和性行为形式来塑造自己的命运。坎贝尔向女权主义理论提出了挑战，她认为进化论确实可以教给我们很多关于女性思想发展的知识--我们只需要把它弄对。这是一本重要的书，它将迫使其他人重新评估他们自己对女性思想进化的假设。
* A highly controversial book challenging current evolutionary thinking on women
* A new book in the popular field of evolutionary psychology
* Accessible and dynamic account of evolutionary theory
Theories of human evolution portray ancestral men as active individuals who shaped future generations by testosterone-driven competition, creating a critical gulf between reproductive winners and losers. But what role is left for women within such evolutionary thinking? Their role has been constricted to mere consumers of the fruits of male competition accepting the winning male genes to pass to their children. Allegedly devoid of the need and capacity for competition amongst themselves, women could be neither winners nor losers in the reproductive stakes and so could contribute nothing to the genetic variability that drives selection. Is it any wonder that feminists are dismissive of such evolutionary approaches? That many have sought to ignore the contribution that evolutionary theory can make to our understanding of women? But have women really just been bit part actors in the whole story of evolution? Have they not played their own role in ensuring their reproductive success? In this highly accessible and thought provoking new book, Anne Campbell challenges this passive role of women in evolutionary theory, and redresses the current bias within evolutionary writing. Guiding us through the basics of evolutionary theory, she proposes that women have forged their own strategic way forward, acting through their own forms of competition, rivalry, aggression, and sexuality, to shape their own destiny. Throwing down a challenge to feminist theories, Campbell argues that evolutionary theory can indeed teach us plenty about the development of the female mind - we just need to get it right. This is an important book that will force others to re-evaluate their own assumptions about the evolution of the female mind.