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The human stain
John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/...
The lust for life
Anthony Clare reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity' by David Horrobin.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104160044...
Darwin's dirty secret
Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.
http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3...
Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/apd.html
Why Sex Matters
Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/lowb...
Back to the Stone Age
Erica Goode reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/revi...
'How The Mind Works' by Stephen Pinker
Review by John Sloss.
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/gazdar/...
Down the Hatch
Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/revi...
The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/bla...
Robin Dunbar reviews Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through our Genes by Steve Olson
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/olson.htm...
Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/caval...
Why Boys Will Be Boys
Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/revi...
A neurosurgeon probes the nature of pain
Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/revi...
You've Got an Attitude
Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/revi...
Buttering Up
Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/revi...
Wild Minds by Marc D. Hauser
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hause...
Books of the Times
Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/03240...
The Dream of the Human Genome
A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Dream_Human_Geno...
Branching Out
Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/revi...
Genetically Manipulated Humans?
Diane B. Paul reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/shipm...
Carnal Knowledge
Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/28/revi...
She's Gotta Have It
Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/revi...
To smack or not to smack
Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200103120044...
An Ape-Man Is Hard to Find
John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/revi...
The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People
First chapter.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearc...
X + Y = Z
Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/revi...
The First Sex by Helen Fisher
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fishe...
Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay
First chapter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style...
Review of `Patterns in the Mind' and `The Language Instinct'
Review titled `Wired for Sound' by Daniel C. Dennett of the books by Ray Jackendoff and Stephen Pinker, which appeared in the London Review of Books (1994).
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/jackpi...
The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mille...
The Triple Helix - Richard Lewontin
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/lew...
Ask Darwin's Grandma
Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Singer in the Rain
A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0010...
Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupré
"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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/leok.html
Language and Gesture
Dario Maestripieri reviews From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Life After God
Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/28/revi...
Everybody Into the Gene Pool
John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/revi...
Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
Paul Higgs reviews the book edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7288/7...
No Job for a Woman
Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/04/revi...
Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dar...
Real Boys' Voices by William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/polla...
Posthumans
Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Lingua Ex Machina by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/calvi...
Hearts of Darkness
John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/revi...
Burrow, Evolution and Society
This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers...
So much for genes
Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n05/wool01_.html
The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tudge...
A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/thorn...
Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse
A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/rus...
Cancer
Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/72...
Almost like a Whale (Darwin's Ghost) - Steve Jones
A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale'(published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/jon...
Where Are We Headed?
Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/30/revi...
Are You in Anthropodenial?
Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/revi...
Survival of the Rapist
Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/02/revi...
Believe It or Not
Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/23/revi...
Descartes' prisoners
Mary Midgley reviews 'Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/199905240041...
Armchair moralising
Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200101220048...
Understanding It All
Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers...
Linked: Barabasi ratifies Kauffman, demotes the social gene by James Brody
Linked offers many heuristic possibilities if your interests are in genetic, neural, electronic, or social organizations.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/linked.ht...
Analyze This Guy
Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/revi...
Klein on Human Evolution
Derek Bickerton reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Major Transitions in Evolution
John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary look at a range of topics in evolutionary biology, from abiogenesis to the origins of societies and language.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Major_Transition...
Not an Inkling
Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/coyn01_.html
Metaphors and Models
David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Darwinian Soup
W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n12/runc02_.html
Excuse me, sir, your name is the wrong colour
Zoë Mullan reviews 'Synaesthesia: the strangest thing' by John Harrison.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol/iss/f...
Cherishment by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/y/young...
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson
First chapter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style...
Fruit fly genetics
Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/...
Maternal Instinct
Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/23/revi...
Evolutionary psychopathology
Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7287/6...
Wag the Human
James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/revi...
Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior by Jack A. Palmer and Linda K. Palmer
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/palmer.ht...
It's all just meat
Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104020043...
The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gutma...
The Prince of Peas
Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/27/revi...
Intelligence
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
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/books/04...
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/eller...
Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man'
Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam & Eve' by David Horrobin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/...
So, This Parrot Comes Into a Bar and Says . . .
Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/30/revi...
From Brains to Consciousness (Rose)
A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind".
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Brains_Conscious...
Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin)
A review by Danny Yee of Lewontin's introduction to human genetics and human biology.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Human_Diversity....
Lyme and punishment
David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200011200049...
Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jones...
Evolution and Human Origins
Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/origins.h...
Darwin's Worms
Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?new...
Gaia
Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200010020049...
Map of Life
Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/revi...
Looking Good by Lynne Luciano
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lucia...
Why Who Did What When
Solomon W. Golomb reviews 'Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Victorian Sensation - James A. Secord
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Victorian Sensation' by James A. Secord.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/pub...
Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Promiscuity.html
Talking About Wu Wei
Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/revi...
Don't Bring Home the Bacon
J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/revi...
The Origin of Language by Desmond Fearnley-Sander
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'.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/spr.html
You're Too Kind by Richard Stengel
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/steng...
A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis...
The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/dewaa...
Little Gray Cells
Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/11/revi...
Iceman by Brenda Fowler
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fowle...
Race
Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104230042...
'Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution' reviewed by Herbert Gintis
A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/01/at.html
Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wise-...
A Universe of Consciousness - Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/ede...
The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
First chapter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style...
Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/daw...
Exploring consciousness
Sean A. Spence reviews Consciousness by Rita Carter.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7362/4...
Truth by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
First Chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/ferna...
Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/boyer.htm...
Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/phi...
Another Branch of the Family
W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/revi...
Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life
Anne Magurran reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/10/revi...
What's the Forecast?
John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/revi...
Well Preserved for His Age
David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/revi...
Brief Tragedies
Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
Split Personality
Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/revi...
Biology in Progress
Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/...
Scary monsters
Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik.
http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?new...
Even Baboons Get the Blues
Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/01/revi...
Boys to Men
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 .
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/25/revi...
Speak, Monkey
George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/revi...
Planters vs. Weeders
John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
In the Heart, or in the Head?
Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/revi...
Nobody Does It Better
Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/revi...
The Language of Genes - Steve Jones
A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/jon...
Whatever Turns You On
Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/11/revi...
Jacobson's Organ by Lyall Watson
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/watso...
Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/burnh...
True (altruistic) love is hard to find by Markus Kemmelmeier
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.'"
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/love.html
Software Etc
George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/revi...
John D. Wagner reviews The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/mm.html
Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tatte...
Heartburn
Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/revi...
Rape
Hilary Rose reviews 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol357/is...
In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gee-t...
Darkness
Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.
http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?Act...
Popular Neuroscience
Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7291/9...
Nonzero by Robert Wright
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wrigh...
Swim Meet
Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/revi...
Neil Levy reviews Evolutionary Origins of Morality edited by Leonard D. Katz
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?
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/levy.html
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/div...
The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/budia...
Her Way by Paula Kamen
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kamen...
How Far From the Tree?
Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/20/revi...
You Can't Get There From Here
Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/revi...
Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tiern...
On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wollh...
Stupid Pet Tricks
James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/11/revi...
The Alex Studies by Irene Maxine Pepperberg
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/peppe...
Rebel With a Cause
Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/revi...
History of Neuroscience
Paul Crichton reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol357/is...
Women Behaving Badly
Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/28/revi...
Paul Ehrlich challenges evolutionary psychology and the 'selfish gene' in his new book, Human Natures: 9/00
Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/hu...
The Dangerous Passion by David Buss
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/buss-...
The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/henig...
The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/somme...
Buff and Ready
Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/revi...
The ethics of the sand pile
Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think' by Mark Buchanan.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200010300041...
Taboo by Jon Entine
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/entin...
The Sixth Sense
Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/09/revi...
Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/phill...
Salon.com Books | "Drawing the Line" by Steven M. Wise
Kurt Kleiner reviews Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights by Steven M. Wise.
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/09/...
From Grunting to Grammar
Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/revi...
Wedding bells and blues
Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200104090051...
Goddess Theory
Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/revi...
La Difference
Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/11/revi...
Lynn O'Connor reviews A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/leo.html
A rust bowl
Anthony Clare reviews 'Perfidious Man' by Will Self and David Gamble.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200012180044...
Nymphomania by Carol Groneman
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/grone...
Limits of the Genetic Lexicon
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf...
All About Evil
Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/revi...
Darwin gets a makeover
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/...
Darwin wars
Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200008140036...
Make War, Not Nice!
Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/revi...
From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology
Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/10/revi...
The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kelle...
A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dar...
Debunking DNA
Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/200003060050...
Evolutionary psychology
Muriel Egerton reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol357/is...
Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/demot...
Humanity by Jonathan Glover
First chapter.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/glove...
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