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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.
	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.
	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".
	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.
	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.

	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?
	The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/miller-mating.html First chapter.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	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.
	An Odd Kind of Fame - http://www.nthposition.com/anoddkindoffame.php Seamus Sweeney reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
	Drawing the Line by Steven M. Wise - http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/09/04/wise/print.html Kurt Kleiner reviews Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights by Steven M. Wise.
	Darwinian Soup - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n12/runc02_.html W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

	Exploring Consciousness - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7362/499 Sean A. Spence reviews Consciousness by Rita Carter.
	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.
	Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7288/740 Paul Higgs reviews the book edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
	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.
	Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dawkinsr/unweaving.htm A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.

	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.
	John D. Wagner reviews The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/mm.html Why have humans evolved such costly and complex brains? And further, why do we use our brains to produce such seemingly useless behaviors as art or music? Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller suggests that the reason might lie in what he considers to be Darwin's most significant contribution to evolution: sexual selection.
	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".
	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.
	Review of Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind - http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/jackpink.htm Online article by Daniel Dennett.

	The Language of Genes - Steve Jones - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/joness/genes.htm A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
	The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gutmann-military.html First chapter.
	From Grunting to Grammar - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16bloomt.html Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.
	To smack or not to smack - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200103120044.htm Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.
	Major Transitions in Evolution - http://dannyreviews.com/h/Major_Transitions.html John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary look at a range of topics in evolutionary biology, from abiogenesis to the origins of societies and language.

	Armchair moralising - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200101220048.htm Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
	The lust for life - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104160044.htm Anthony Clare reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity' by David Horrobin.
	Even Baboons Get the Blues - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/01/reviews/010401.01nixont.html Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
	Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead) - http://dannyreviews.com/h/Promiscuity.html Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
	Evolution and Human Origins - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/origins.html Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.

	Iceman by Brenda Fowler - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fowler-iceman.html First chapter.
	Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wise-cage.html First chapter.
	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.
	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.
	Who Wrote the Book of Life? - http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=+3417 A review of this book, subtitled 'A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.

	Victorian Sensation - James A. Secord - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/publish/secordja.htm A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Victorian Sensation' by James A. Secord.
	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.
	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.
	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.'"
	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.

	A Universe of Consciousness - Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/edelmang/univeroc.htm A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
	Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/darwinc/datlse2.htm A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.
	Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips - http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/phillipsa/dsworms.htm A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
	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.
	'Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution' reviewed by Herbert Gintis - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/01/at.html A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.

	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'.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Singer in the Rain - http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2660 A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.

	The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/hand.htm First chapter.
	The First Sex by Helen Fisher - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fisher-first.html First chapter.
	Taboo by Jon Entine - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/entine-taboo.html First chapter.
	Are You in Anthropodenial? - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/reviews/010408.08fostert.html Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
	So, This Parrot Comes Into a Bar and Says . . . - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/30/reviews/000130.30heinrit.html Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.

	Understanding It All - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper86.html Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.
	Little Gray Cells - http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/11/reviews/990711.11strawst.html Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.
	Fruit Fly Genetics - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4161281,00.html Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
	Well Preserved for His Age - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/reviews/000521.21papinet.html David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler
	Don't Bring Home the Bacon - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/reviews/001217.17schneet.html J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.

	Darwin's Dirty Secret - http://www.discovery.org/a/164 Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.
	How Far From the Tree? - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/20/reviews/000820.20ridleyt.html Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
	All About Evil - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/reviews/001029.29pinkert.html Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.
	Everybody Into the Gene Pool - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23durantt.html John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
	Make War, Not Nice! - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/reviews/000507.07gilligt.html Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann

	Goddess Theory - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/reviews/000917.17angiert.html Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.
	Boys to Men - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/25/reviews/000625.25colest.html Robert Coles reviews 'The War Against Boys : How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men' by Christina Hoff Sommers and 'Real Boys' Voices' by William S. Pollack .
	Buff and Ready - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/reviews/010211.11brubact.html Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.
	A neurosurgeon probes the nature of pain - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/reviews/000917.17groopmt.html Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr
	Life After God - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/28/reviews/000528.28marcust.html Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

	Heartburn - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/reviews/000213.13weavert.html Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.
	From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/10/reviews/001210.10schwent.html Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
	You Can't Get There From Here - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27richart.html Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.
	Stupid Pet Tricks - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/11/reviews/010311.11gormant.html James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
	Women Behaving Badly - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/28/reviews/010128.28eak.html Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.

	Down the Hatch - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/reviews/000312.12kellert.html Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
	Talking About Wu Wei - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/reviews/000326.26wilsont.html Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.
	You've Got an Attitude - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/reviews/000326.26mattict.html Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.
	Back to the Stone Age - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/reviews/001231.31goodet.html Erica Goode reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
	Survival of the Rapist - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/02/reviews/000402.002waalt.html Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

	An Ape-Man Is Hard to Find - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/reviews/010121.21wilfort.html John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.
	What's the Forecast? - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16turnert.html John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.
	Split Personality - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/reviews/000507.07halllt.html Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
	Nobody Does It Better - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16holtlt.html Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
	In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gee-time.html First chapter.

	Evolutionary Psychopathology - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7287/680/a Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price.
	Darwin Gets a Makeover - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443006.stm#top Professor Steve Jones has rewritten Darwin's 'Origin of Species', a book that contains ideas which are just as controversial today as they were 140 years ago.
	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.
	Popular Neuroscience - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7291/935/a Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.
	http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7256/305/a - http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7256/305/a Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.

	The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/symbolicspecies.htm First chapter.
	Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/queerscience.htm First chapter.
	'How The Mind Works' by Stephen Pinker - http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/gazdar/teach/atc/1998/revman/sloss.html Review by John Sloss.
	Darwin Wars - http://www.newstatesman.com/200008140036.htm Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
	Debunking DNA - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200003060050.htm Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.

	Nymphomania by Carol Groneman - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/groneman-nymphomania.html First chapter.
	A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/thornhill-rape.html First chapter.
	Darwin Wars - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200008140036.htm Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
	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.
	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.

	Posthumans - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/messing-with-mother-nature Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.
	The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/dewaal-sushi.html First chapter.
	X + Y = Z - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20angiert.html Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.
	The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/eller-myth.html First chapter.
	Humanity by Jonathan Glover - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/glover-humanity.html First chapter.

	Jacobson's Organ by Lyall Watson - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/watson-organ.html First chapter.
	The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/budiansky-truth.html First chapter.
	The Prince of Peas - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/27/reviews/000827.27cainlt.html Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
	The Dangerous Passion by David Buss - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/buss-passion.html First chapter.
	Lingua Ex Machina by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/calvin-ex.html First chapter.

	Why Boys Will Be Boys - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08bickert.html Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.
	The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/henig-monk.html First chapter.
	Hearts of Darkness - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/reviews/001112.12horgant.html John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.
	Analyze This Guy - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29nussbat.html Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.
	Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tattersall-extinct.html First chapter.

	Real Boys' Voices by William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pollack-voices.html First chapter.
	The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tudge-variety.html First chapter.
	Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/phillips-worms.html First chapter.
	Software Etc - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/reviews/000521.21johnsot.html George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
	Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tierney-dorado.html First chapter.

	Truth by Felipe Fernández-Armesto - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fernandez-truth.html First Chapter.
	Looking Good by Lynne Luciano - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/luciano-looking.html First chapter.
	Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jones-ghost.html First chapter.
	The Alex Studies by Irene Maxine Pepperberg - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pepperberg-alex.html First chapter.
	Cherishment by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/y/young-bruehl-cherishment.html First chapter.

	Wild Minds by Marc D. Hauser - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hauser-wild.html First chapter.
	You're Too Kind by Richard Stengel - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stengel-kind.html First chapter.
	The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sommers-war.html First chapter.
	Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/burnham-genes.html First chapter.
	The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/shipman-link.html First chapter.

	Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/demott-woman.html First chapter.
	Nonzero by Robert Wright - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wright-nonzero.html First chapter.
	Buttering Up - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/reviews/000910.10klei.html Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.
	The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/keller-gene.html First chapter.
	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.

	Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cavalli-sforza-genes.html First chapter.
	Speak, Monkey - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/reviews/000312.12pagelt.html George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
	No Job for a Woman - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/04/reviews/010304.04shapirt.html Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.
	Her Way by Paula Kamen - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kamen-her.html First chapter.
	On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wollheim-emotions.html First chapter.

	The Sixth Sense - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/09/reviews/000409.09finkbet.html Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.
	Carnal Knowledge - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/28/reviews/010128.28weavert.html Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.
	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 Segerstråle.
	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.
	Burrow, Evolution and Society - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper78.html This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.

	Not an Inkling - http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/coyn01_.html Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.
	Genetically Manipulated Humans? - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/swashbuckling-into-the-nebulous-future Diane B. Paul reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock.
	Brief Tragedies - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/brief-tragedies Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
	Limits of the Genetic Lexicon - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/limits-of-the-genetic-lexicon Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
	Metaphors and Models - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/explanatory-styles-in-science David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.

	The Century of the Gene - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/10/reviews/001210.10magurrt.html Anne Magurran reviews this book by Evelyn Fox Keller. Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life.
	Wedding Bells and Blues - http://www.newstatesman.com/200104090051.htm Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.
	Language and Gesture - http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1999/2/the-gestural-origins-of-language/6 Dario Maestripieri reviews From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis.
	Ask Darwin's Grandma - http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/ask-darwins-grandma Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
	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.

	Biology in Progress - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4153271,00.html Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.
	La Difference - http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/11/reviews/990711.11holtlt.html Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.
	Believe It or Not - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/23/reviews/000123.23lefkowt.html Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
	Rebel With a Cause - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23mainest.html Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
	Books of the Times - http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/032400gutmann-book-review.html Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.

	A rust bowl - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200012180044.htm Anthony Clare reviews 'Perfidious Man' by Will Self and David Gamble.
	Lyme and punishment - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200011200049.htm David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.
	Darkness - http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?Action=Display&newDisplayURN=300000008457&newTemplate=BookshopReview Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.
	http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200010020049.htm - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200010020049.htm Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.
	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.

	Another Branch of the Family - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/reviews/000618.18doolitt.html W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge
	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.
	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.
	Swim Meet - http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29raeburt.html Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.
	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.

	Branching Out - http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06dawkint.html Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
	http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104230042.htm - http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104230042.htm Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt.
	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.
	The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0716740044&displayonly=excerpt First chapter.
	Intelligence - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/books/04FINK.html Ann Finkbeiner reviews The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing by Frank T. Vertosick. Free registration required at the New York Times

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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