A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton.
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A review and a link to other reviews of Mystery of Mysteries by Michael Ruse.
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A review and a link to other reviews of Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones.
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of A Darwinian Left by Peter Singer.
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Differences between people or groups of people, and the biological bases of such differences, are common subjects for dinner-party debates and mass-media stories, especially when sex, intelligence, or race are involved...
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Triple Helix by Richard Lewontin.
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An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict | A tour of animal sexuality, exploring the effects of sperm competition and sex-based selective pressures on reproductive biology and behaviour...
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The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions | A selection of book reviews originally published in the New York Review, in which Lewontin tackles topics in the philosophy, history, and politics of biology...
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers by Colin Tudge.
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A review and a link to other reviews of The Language of Genes by Steve Jones.
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Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind | The essays in From Brains to Consciousness progress -- or, some will say, regress -- from straight science to attempts to connect that science with philosophical concepts such as consciousness...
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A survey of the 'key events' in evolution by two leading theorists, The Major Transitions in Evolution ranges all the way from prebiotic chemistry through to the origins of society...
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of A Universe of Consciousness (Consciousness) by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
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Dupre 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. The author s lack of documentation of a more thorough understanding of EP (both in the ...
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Review of Jackendoff/Pinker in The London Review of Books, 23 June 1994, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 10-11. Daniel C. Dennett Review of Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1993, and Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, William Morrow, 1993. Wired for Sound There was language long before there was writing, a fact that we ...
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Related Items Books & Reading Book World Review The Hand How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture By Frank R. Wilson Pantheon. 396 pp. $30 Prologue Early this morning, even before you were out of bed, your hands and arms came to life, goading your weak and helpless body into the new day. Perhaps your day began with a lunge at the snooze bar on the bedside radio, or a roundhouse ...
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For such a young discipline, it is remarkable how much of a consensus has already been established in evolutionary psychology. It is widely agreed, for example, that modern human traits such as language had already evolved by the time our ancestors first left Africa. Certainly, by the time our ancestors were painting caves in Europe, they must have had distinctly modern minds. But perhaps this ...
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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. Sexual selection is different than natural, or survival selection, ...
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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 The theory of evolution offers a framework in which these questions may be addressed. The difficulty is that language, spoken or signed, leaves no lasting trace. Which of our ancient ancestors had language, and ...
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John Burrow was working on evolutionary social theory while I was working on the wider Victorian debate on evolution and 'man's place in nature'. His excellent book came out just as I was tapped to give a Special Subject in the History Tripos, and he was (unjustly, in my view) obliged to move to Sussex. I took this opportunity to lament his departure. The review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 ...
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I was delighted to be approached by the New Statesman to review this massive tome. It turned out to be one of the purest examples of scientism I have ever read. Genetics is claimed to explain everything in human history and to justify racist and classist views aplenty. Darlington was an Oxford professor a displayed pure explanatory arrogance. His book ranks with E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology in ...
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore.
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A review and a link to other reviews of Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins.
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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. It contains the heart of what therapists are doing in psychotherapy, regardless of what we think we are doing.
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Go to Chapter One Section Go to Book World's Review The Symbolic Species The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain By Terrence W. Deacon Chapter One: The Human Paradox ... the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. --Soren Kierkergaard An Evolutionary Anomaly As our species ...
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The message of this book is that in species with significant behavioral plasticity and ability to learn, there is a coevolution of learned behavior and structure of social interaction on the one hand, and genetic development on the other. The authors justify this message empirically and theoretically, while lamenting the tendency of most animal behaviorists to downplay the importance of learning ...
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips.
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Bobbi S. Low Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA, 2000, xviii + 412 pp. . Reviewed by Johan M.G. van der Dennen, Dept. Legal Theory, Section Political Science, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, the Netherlands Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors ...
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March 24, 2000 BOOKS OF THE TIMES 'The Kinder, Gentler Military': Gentling the Trenches in the Mixed-Sex Army By RICHARD BERNSTEIN THE KINDER, GENTLER MILITARY Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars By Stephanie Gutmann. 300 pages. Scribner. $25. n 1994 the aircraft carrier Eisenhower set off on its maiden voyage with a crew that was 10 percent female, a remarkably high ...
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Victorian Sensation by James A. Secord.
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