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The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/miller-mating.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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Klein on Human Evolution - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/a-bare-bones-account-of-human-evolution
Derek Bickerton reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar. |
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Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/rusem/mofms.htm
A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse. |
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Almost like a Whale (Darwin's Ghost) - Steve Jones - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/joness/whale.htm
A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale'(published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones. |
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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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Where Are We Headed? - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/30/reviews/000130.30conwayt.html
Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright. |
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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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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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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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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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The Triple Helix - Richard Lewontin - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/lewontin/tripleh.htm
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin. |
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The Dream of the Human Genome - http://dannyreviews.com/h/Dream_Human_Genome.html
A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions". |
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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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Neil Levy reviews Evolutionary Origins of Morality edited by Leonard D. Katz - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/levy.html
Natural selection inevitably favors organisms which behave in self-serving manners, for it will be these organisms who leave the most descendants, and so how can evolutionary psychology ever explain morality? |
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Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/boyer.html
This book is a milestone on the road to a new behavioral understanding of religion, basing itself on what has come to be known as cognitive anthropology. |
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Iceman by Brenda Fowler - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fowler-iceman.html
First chapter. |
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From Brains to Consciousness (Rose) - http://dannyreviews.com/h/Brains_Consciousness.html
A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind". |
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Biology in Progress - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4153271,00.html
Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman. |
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The Origin of Language by Desmond Fearnley-Sander - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/spr.html
When did language arise, and how? And why? If it is of value for the survival of a species, as it clearly is, then why has only one species succeeded in acquiring full-blown language? An interesting discussion of Terrence Deacon's 'The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain'. |
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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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Robin Dunbar reviews Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through our Genes by Steve Olson - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/olson.html
Genetics has made an enormous contribution to our understanding of human history in the last few years and Robin Dunbar gives his opinion of Steve Olson's account. |
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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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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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Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior by Jack A. Palmer and Linda K. Palmer - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/palmer.html
Evolutionary psychology (EP) is barely a decade old, yet already there are several textbooks available designed to give students an overview of the discipline. This is a worthy addition to the range - according to Neil Levy. |
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Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man' - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4154224,00.html
Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve' by David Horrobin. |
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Planters vs. Weeders - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/planters-vs-weeders
John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstrĺle. |
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Fruit Fly Genetics - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4161281,00.html
Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes. |
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So much for genes - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n05/wool01_.html
Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller. |
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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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A Natural History of Rape - http://www.kenanmalik.com/reviews/thornhill&palmer.html
Kenan Malik reviews this book by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer. |
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She's Gotta Have It - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06jaymut.html
Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman. |
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It's all just meat - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104020043.htm
Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes. |
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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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The ethics of the sand pile - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200010300041.htm
Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think' by Mark Buchanan. |