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Ecologists have long understood that the typical interaction between any two individuals or species is neither competition nor cooperation, but neutralism. Neutralism means apathy: the animals just ig...

Geoffrey Miller

Ecologists have long understood that the typical interaction between any two individuals or species is neither competition nor cooperation, but neutralism. Neutralism means apathy: the animals just ig...

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts...

Geoffrey Miller

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts...

Tags: evolution, politics, sex

About Author
Geoffrey Miller may refer to:

Geoff Miller (born 1952), English cricketer
Geoff Miller (diplomat) (born 193?), former Australian public servant and diplomat
Geoff Miller (priest) (born 1956), archdeacon of Northumberland
Geoff Miller (public servant) (1942–2014), former Australian public servant
Geoff Miller (publisher) (1936–2011), American co-founder, editor, and publisher of Los Angeles Magazine
Geoffrey Miller (cricketer, born 1937), former English cricketer
Geoffrey Miller (psychologist) (born 1965), evolutionary psychologist
Geoffrey P. Miller, American professor of law, see List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Geoffrey D. Miller (born 1949), US Army general

Capitalism is not materialistic, but semiotic. It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands,

Geoffrey Miller

Capitalism is not materialistic, but semiotic. It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands,

You may think that tax policy sounds like the most boring topic in the world. That is precisely what most governments, corporations, and special interests would like you to think, because tax policy i...

Geoffrey Miller

You may think that tax policy sounds like the most boring topic in the world. That is precisely what most governments, corporations, and special interests would like you to think, because tax policy i...

You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution to the future of the human gene pool is z...

Geoffrey Miller

You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution to the future of the human gene pool is z...

Thus, consumption taxes tend to reduce conspicuous consumption and promote longer-term retirement security, family wealth, social welfare, technical progress, and economic growth. In essence, income t...

Geoffrey Miller

Thus, consumption taxes tend to reduce conspicuous consumption and promote longer-term retirement security, family wealth, social welfare, technical progress, and economic growth. In essence, income t...

Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits.

Geoffrey Miller

Thus, all ads effectively have two audiences: potential product buyers, and potential product viewers who will credit the product owners with various desirable traits.

The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

Geoffrey Miller

The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

The human mind and the peacock’s tail may serve similar biological functions. The peacock’s tail is the classic example of sexual selection through mate choice. It evolved because peahens (female peac...

Geoffrey Miller

The human mind and the peacock’s tail may serve similar biological functions. The peacock’s tail is the classic example of sexual selection through mate choice. It evolved because peahens (female peac...

Tags: female sexuality, mating mind

The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best work in courtship, where the most important deal...

Geoffrey Miller

The healthy brain theory proposes that our minds are clusters of fitness indicators: persuasive salesmen like art, music, and humor, that do their best work in courtship, where the most important deal...

The ad does not say Buy this!; it says, Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferio...

Geoffrey Miller

The ad does not say Buy this!; it says, Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferio...

Scientists have no more status than what other scientists award them through citations, talk invitations, and tenure. Status makes a misleadingly concrete-sounding

Geoffrey Miller

Scientists have no more status than what other scientists award them through citations, talk invitations, and tenure. Status makes a misleadingly concrete-sounding

At the other extreme, the consumption tax rate should be very, very high for any products that impose massive negative externalities. Consider handgun ammunition. Currently, one can buy five hundred r...

Geoffrey Miller

At the other extreme, the consumption tax rate should be very, very high for any products that impose massive negative externalities. Consider handgun ammunition. Currently, one can buy five hundred r...

Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.

Geoffrey Miller

Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors.

One problem with most current governments is that they prioritize economic growth (as mismeasured by GDP per capita) over citizens’ happiness, quality of life, efficiency of trait display, and breadth...

Geoffrey Miller

One problem with most current governments is that they prioritize economic growth (as mismeasured by GDP per capita) over citizens’ happiness, quality of life, efficiency of trait display, and breadth...

Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say this is due to patriarchy is to beg the question of the...

Geoffrey Miller

Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say this is due to patriarchy is to beg the question of the...

Tags: feminism, psychology

Many thinkers have tried to naturalize consumerism in that way, including most social Darwinists, Austrian School economists (Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard), Chicago School econom...

Geoffrey Miller

Many thinkers have tried to naturalize consumerism in that way, including most social Darwinists, Austrian School economists (Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard), Chicago School econom...

Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual compet...

Geoffrey Miller

Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual compet...

Tags: politics

Dismissing the idea that female choice could influence the direction of evolution began to look both sexist and unscientific. By drawing attention to the evolution of social and sexual behavior in ani...

Geoffrey Miller

Dismissing the idea that female choice could influence the direction of evolution began to look both sexist and unscientific. By drawing attention to the evolution of social and sexual behavior in ani...

David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good income, ambition, intelligence, and energy--contrary to the view...

Geoffrey Miller

David Buss has amassed a lot of evidence that human females across many cultures tend to prefer males who have high social status, good income, ambition, intelligence, and energy--contrary to the view...

Tags: sexual selection