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Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby - http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field. |
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The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ - http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html
Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology. |
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The Descent of Man - http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/
Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism. |
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Psychology, Culture, and Evolution - http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, links to cultural-historical psychology, and links to articles about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality. |
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Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition - http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/research.html
Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers. |
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Women's Choice of Men Goes in Cycles - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/376321.stm
The BBC reports that women are attracted to more hunky men at the most fertile time of their menstrual cycle - this may be part of an evolutionary explanation of infidelity. |
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Evolution's Voyage - http://www.evoyage.com/
Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists. |
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The Future of Human Evolution - http://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.html
Paper by nick Bostrom exploring some dystopian scenarios where evolutionary developments, while continuing to produce complex and intelligent forms of organization, lead to the gradual elimination of all forms of being that we care about. |
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Toward a Revised Evolutionary Adaptationist Analysis of Depression: The Social Navigation Hypothesis - http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/Watson_Andrews2002.pdf
Presents the niche change model of depression, proposing evolutionary adaptationist functions for minor and major depression to be considered by patients and their families, as well as mental health professionals. |
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Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man - http://www.darwinwars.com/index.html
Information about and from Andrew Brown's book on current debates between the Dawkinsians and the Gouldians over Dawkins' concept of the "selfish gene" and related matters. |
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Unlocking the brain's potential - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1211299.stm
Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows. |
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Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution - http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/hbook/start.htm
Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. |
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Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/pinker.html
A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. |
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The Imagined World Made Real - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/plotkin.html
Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture. |
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Sex, Drugs, and Cults - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html
An evolutionary perspective on sex, drugs, cults, religions, and ideologies by H. Keith Henson, including a hair-raising account of the author's encounters with the scientiology cult. |
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Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/844217.stm
British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence. = |
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The Origin of Language - UsingEnglish.com - http://www.usingenglish.com/speaking-out/universal-grammar.html
Some thoughts on the 'origin of language' debate, and the arguments put forward by Steels and MacWhinney, in contrast to those put forward by Chomsky and Pinker. |
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The Genetics of Complex Traits - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/Feb/hour2_021497.html
Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits. |
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Brain Development - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Feb/hour1_020996.html
A broadcast in RealAudio from the annual meeting of the AAAS: Marion Diamond and others on how genes and the environment work together to shape the young developing brain. |
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The Dance of Consciousness - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/freeman/
In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action. |
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Orlando Patterson - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/patterson/
Audio interview with the historical sociologist and Professor at Harvard University. He won the 1991 National Book Award for Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, appears regularly in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Republic. He also served as special adviser for social policy and development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley during the 1970's, was on the faculty at the London School of Economics, and has published three novels. |
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Jared Diamond - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer. |
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Margaret Hagen - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception. |
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Monkey Math - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jan/hour1_010700.html
What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology? |
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The Role of the Skeptic - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Jun/hour2_062196.html
A discussion including Eugenie Scott. |
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Evolutionary psychology - http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/evpsy.htm
A comprehensive evolutionary psychology must be able to deal with our future psychological evolution as well as our past. This paper begins the extension of evolutionary psychology to our future evolution. |
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Flight from Science and Reason - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Jul/hour2_072895.html
Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in science and academia. |
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The Bio-Rational Institute - http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/
Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience. |
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Human Genome Project - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jun/hour1_060900.html
Where does the push to sequence the human genome stand, and what's the outlook for the near future? And what will knowing the genome be able to tell us? A genetics update on this hour of Science Friday. |
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Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Oct/hour2_102700.html
How much do our genes determine our behavior? Is there such a thing as "genetic destiny?" And is evolution merely a biological process, or is it a cultural process as well? |
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Stress and Disease - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour1_122295.html
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress. |
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Frank Sulloway - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/sulloway/
Audio interview with the visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, author of 'Born to Rebel'. |
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Identifying the accident prone - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1100347.stm
Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers. |
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When babies 'see' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1037328.stm
Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research. |
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No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the Genius Sperm-bank Donors Turn Out? - http://slate.com/id/103402/
The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine. |