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Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin) - http://dannyreviews.com/h/Human_Diversity.html
A review by Danny Yee of Lewontin's introduction to human genetics and human biology. |
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The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/divphil/burtonr.htm
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton. |
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Linked: Barabasi ratifies Kauffman, demotes the social gene by James Brody - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/linked.html
Linked offers many heuristic possibilities if your interests are in genetic, neural, electronic, or social organizations. |
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Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wise-cage.html
First chapter. |
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Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.html
Book review of "Alas Poor Darwin", by Robert Kurzban. Assesses five charges against evolutionary psychology: genetic determinism, panadaptationism, unfalsifiable hypotheses, proximate explanations, and ideological bias. |
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A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/darwinc/datlse1.htm
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer. |
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Descartes' prisoners - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/199905240041.htm
Mary Midgley reviews 'Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins. |
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Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupré - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/leok.html
"Dupré's Human Nature and The Limits of Science is not a successful attempt at providing a criticism of evolutionary psychology. Quite literally because it is not about evolutionary psychology, rather, as an extreme statement, it is about the author's prejudice of what evolutionary psychology is about," writes Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair in this detailed analysis. |
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Not an Inkling - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/coyn01_.html
Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley. |
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Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead) - http://dannyreviews.com/h/Promiscuity.html
Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict. |
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The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/blackmrs/mememach.htm
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore. |
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Maternal Instinct - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/23/reviews/000123.23magurrt.html
Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. |
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In the Heart, or in the Head? - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27schillt.html
Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon. |
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Map of Life - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27silvert.html
Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley. |
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A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-love.html
First chapter. |
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The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sommers-war.html
First chapter. |
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Whatever Turns You On - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/11/reviews/000611.11tattert.html
Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller. |
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'Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution' reviewed by Herbert Gintis - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/01/at.html
A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis. |
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True (altruistic) love is hard to find by Markus Kemmelmeier - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/love.html
This edited volume is the first publication of the Cleveland-based Institute for Research on Unlimited Love and its president Stephen G. Post. The mission of this organization is to "support research and education on 'unlimited love,' a concept defined as 'total constant love for every person with no exception.'" |
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Lynn O'Connor reviews A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/leo.html
A General Theory of Love, by three long-time collaborating psychiatrists, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, is a compelling and timely discussion not only of love between lovers, but love between parents and children, therapists and patients. |
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Why Sex Matters - http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/lowbook.htm
Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low. |
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Wedding bells and blues - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104090051.htm
Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom. |
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Brief Tragedies - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads01/cancer.html
Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves. |
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Wag the Human - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/reviews/001029.29gormant.html
James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky. |
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Planters vs. Weeders - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/Leads01/defenders.html
John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstrĺle. |
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Scary monsters - http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenBookObject&newTop=200010230045&newDisplayURN=200010230045
Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik. |
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Darwin's Worms - http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenBookObject&newTop=200002140055&newDisplayURN=200002140055
Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips. |
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The human stain - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4176749,00.html
John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin. |
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Paul Ehrlich challenges evolutionary psychology and the 'selfish gene' in his new book, Human Natures: 9/00 - http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/humans920.html
Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. |
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Race - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104230042.htm
Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt. |