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This section is for book reviews of publications in evolutionary psychology and related fields.

A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon - First chapter.

A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer - First chapter.

A rust bowl - Anthony Clare reviews 'Perfidious Man' by Will Self and David Gamble.

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.

Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology - Paul Higgs reviews the book edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.

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.

Armchair moralising - Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.

Biology in Progress - Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.

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Brief Tragedies - Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.

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Buttering Up - Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.

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Cancer - Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.

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Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney - First chapter.

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Darwin wars - Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.

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Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones - First chapter.

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Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

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Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips - First chapter.

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Darwinian Soup - W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

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Debunking DNA - Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.

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Descartes' prisoners - Mary Midgley reviews 'Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins.

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Evolutionary psychopathology - Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price

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Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz - First chapter.

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From Brains to Consciousness (Rose) - A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind".

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Fruit fly genetics - Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.

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Her Way by Paula Kamen - First chapter.

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Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin) - A review by Danny Yee of Lewontin's introduction to human genetics and human biology.

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Iceman by Brenda Fowler - First chapter.

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In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee - First chapter.

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It's all just meat - Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.

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Jacobson's Organ by Lyall Watson - First chapter.

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Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott - First chapter.

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Lingua Ex Machina by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton - First chapter.

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Looking Good by Lynne Luciano - First chapter.

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Lyme and punishment - David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.

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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.

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Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan - First chapter.

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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.

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Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.

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Nonzero by Robert Wright - First chapter.

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Not an Inkling - Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.

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Nymphomania by Carol Groneman - First chapter.

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On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim - First chapter.

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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.

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Popular Neuroscience - Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.

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Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead) - Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.

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Race - Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt.

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Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise - First chapter.

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Real Boys' Voices by William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster - First chapter.

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Review of Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind - Online article by Daniel Dennett.

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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.

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Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man' - Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam & Eve' by David Horrobin.

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Singer in the Rain - A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.

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So much for genes - Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

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Taboo by Jon Entine - First chapter.

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The Alex Studies by Irene Maxine Pepperberg - First chapter.

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The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.

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The Dangerous Passion by David Buss - First chapter.

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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".

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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.

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The First Sex by Helen Fisher - First chapter.

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The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann - First chapter.

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The Language of Genes - Steve Jones - A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.

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The lust for life - Anthony Clare reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity' by David Horrobin.

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The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller - First chapter.

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The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

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The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig - First chapter.

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The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller - First chapter.

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The Triple Helix - Richard Lewontin - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.

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The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky - First chapter.

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The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge - First chapter.

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To smack or not to smack - Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.

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Truth by Felipe Fernández-Armesto - First Chapter.

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Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.

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Victorian Sensation - James A. Secord - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Victorian Sensation' by James A. Secord.

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Wedding bells and blues - Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.

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Why Sex Matters - Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.

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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.

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Women Behaving Badly - Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.

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You're Too Kind by Richard Stengel - First chapter.

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'Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution' reviewed by Herbert Gintis - A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.

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A neurosurgeon probes the nature of pain - Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr

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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.

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All About Evil - Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.

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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.

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Analyze This Guy - Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.

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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

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Are You in Anthropodenial? - Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.

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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.

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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.

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Believe It or Not - Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

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Books of the Times - Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.

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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 .

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Branching Out - Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

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Buff and Ready - Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.

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Burrow, Evolution and Society - This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.

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Carnal Knowledge - Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.

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Cherishment by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard - First chapter.

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Darkness - Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.

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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.

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Darwin's dirty secret - Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.

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Darwin's Worms - Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

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Don't Bring Home the Bacon - J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.

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Down the Hatch - Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.

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Even Baboons Get the Blues - Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.

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Everybody Into the Gene Pool - John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.

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Evolution and Human Origins - Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.

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Evolutionary psychology - Muriel Egerton reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.

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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.

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Excuse me, sir, your name is the wrong colour - Zoë Mullan reviews 'Synaesthesia: the strangest thing' by John Harrison.

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Exploring consciousness - Sean A. Spence reviews Consciousness by Rita Carter.

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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.

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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.

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Gaia - Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.

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Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza - First chapter.

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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.

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Genetically Manipulated Humans? - Diane B. Paul reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock.

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Goddess Theory - Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.

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Heartburn - Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.

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Hearts of Darkness - John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.

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History of Neuroscience - Paul Crichton reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.

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How Far From the Tree? - Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.

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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.

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Humanity by Jonathan Glover - First chapter.

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In the Heart, or in the Head? - Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.

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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

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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.

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Klein on Human Evolution - Derek Bickerton reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar.

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La Difference - Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.

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Language and Gesture - Dario Maestripieri reviews From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis.

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Life After God - Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

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Limits of the Genetic Lexicon - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

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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.

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Little Gray Cells - Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.

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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.

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Make War, Not Nice! - Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann

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Map of Life - Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.

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Maternal Instinct - Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

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Metaphors and Models - David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.

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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?

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No Job for a Woman - Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.

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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.

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Planters vs. Weeders - John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.

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Posthumans - Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.

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Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay - First chapter.

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Rape - Hilary Rose reviews 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.

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Rebel With a Cause - Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

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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.

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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.

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Scary monsters - Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik.

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She's Gotta Have It - Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.

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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.

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Software Etc - George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.

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Speak, Monkey - George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.

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Split Personality - Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.

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Stupid Pet Tricks - James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.

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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

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Swim Meet - Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.

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Talking About Wu Wei - Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.

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The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal - First chapter.

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The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller - First chapter.

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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson - First chapter.

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The human stain - John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.

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The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman - First chapter.

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The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People - First chapter.

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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'.

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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.

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The Sixth Sense - Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.

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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon - First chapter.

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The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers - First chapter.

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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.'"

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Understanding It All - Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.

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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.

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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

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What's the Forecast? - John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.

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Whatever Turns You On - Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Ch