Top 5 Quotes by Geoffrey Miller

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

Geoffrey Miller

Charming, Attractive, Lows

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

Geoffrey Miller

Ocean, Consumerism, Plankton

Geoffrey Miller (2009). “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”, p.8, Penguin

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

Geoffrey Miller

Willpower, Eating, Carbs

"Geoffrey Miller, Visiting NYU Professor, Slammed For Fat-Shaming Obese PhD Applicants" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.

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 to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.

Geoffrey Miller

Philosophy, Issues, Rights