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Geoffrey Miller
Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics and Free Speech
Cambrian Moon, 2019

Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist with a position at the University of New Mexico. His most important book so far remains his first, The Mating Mind (2000), a study of sexual selection. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Darwinism, F. Roger Devlin, free speech, North American New Right, originals, sexual selection, virtue signaling | 4 Responses

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The Evolutionary Psychologist’s Guide to Picking Up Girls

F. Roger Devlin

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Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller
Mate: Become the Man Women Want
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Time was when a young man did not need to master evolutionary psychology in order to find himself a girl. The adult world provided the young with ready-made social rituals for meeting, assessing one another’s prospects as a mate, and (eventually) entering into a lifelong covenant to bear and raise a new generation. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged biologial sex differences, book reviews, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolutionary psychology, F. Roger Devlin, game, North American New Right, originals, sexual selection | 15 Responses

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Evolving into Consumerism—and Beyond It:
Geoffrey Miller’s Spent

Alex Kurtagić

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Geoffrey Miller
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
New York: Viking, 2009

When I was asked to review this book, I half groaned because I was sure of what to expect and I also knew it was not going to broaden my knowledge in a significant way. From my earlier reading up on other, but tangentially related subject areas (e.g., advertising), I already knew, and it seemed more than obvious to me, that consumer behavior had an evolutionary basis. Read more …

Published: December 25, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, consumerism, Darwinism, North American New Right, reprints, sexual selection, social psychology | 5 Responses

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Darwin’s Other Idea:
Geoffrey Miller’s The Mating Mind

Richard Hoste

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Geoffrey Miller
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
New York: Random House, 2000

Darwinian evolution is seen as a cold, ruthless struggle for survival that shaped what we eventually became. But, the critic responds, whence kindness, humor, language, playfulness, art and creativity? Scientists have tried to explain altruism towards relatives as kin selection and other forms of morality as based on reciprocity, but we all often help people who are not related to us when there’s nothing to be gained. Read more …