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Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (Popularity:  )
http://www.human-nature.com/mba/mba1.html
A classic text on cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
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Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins (Popularity: )
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dawkinsr/unweaving.htm
A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.
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Whatever Turns You On (Popularity: )
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.
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Evolution of Social Behavior in Primates: Personality Traits (Popularity: )
http://primate_behaviour.homestead.com/
Theory based on Mendelian genetics predicts that personality traits can be traced in ancestral hominid lineages. Reference to non-human primates. A. M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D.
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Chimps touched by television (Popularity: )
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010419/010419-2.html
Chimpanzees are moved by fearful or appealing television scenes.
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Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned (Popularity: )
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.
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The Imagined World Made Real (Popularity: )
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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Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse (Popularity: )
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.
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The Science of Beauty (Popularity: )
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Mar/hour2_030395.html
Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
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Animal Soul (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper59.html
A history of the idea and a critique of reductionism. It appeared in Paul Edwards, ed., 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy'. N.Y.: Macmillan and London: Collier-Macmillan, 1967, Vol. 1, pp. 122-27.
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Burrow, Evolution and Society (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper78.html
This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.
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The Functions of the Brain: Gall to Ferrier (1808-1886) (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/func.html
An online paper on mind, brain, and adaptation in the nineteenth century. It was published in Isis 59: 251-68, 1968.
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Darwinism is Social (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper60.html
This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638.
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Victorian Sensation - James A. Secord (Popularity: )
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.
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"The Mind as the Software of the Brain" by Ned Block (Popularity: )
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html
Cognitive scientists often say that the mind is the software of the brain. This chapter is about what this claim means.
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Evolution's Arrow by John Stewart (Popularity: )
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/chap%2011.htm
Psychological evolution - examines how humans are evolving psychologically, the next step becoming a self-evolving organism whose adaptability is not limited by its biological and social past.
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Humans and Other Animals (Popularity: )
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/135/11.0.html
How much do we share with the birds of the air and the beasts of the field? Article by John Wilson at Christianity Today.
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Stress and Disease (Popularity: )
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour1_122295.html
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
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In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas (Popularity: )
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/outpost/resource_lesson1.html
Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
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SFU Evolutionary Psychology Research Group (Popularity: )
http://www.sfu.ca/~janicki/
Group directed by Charles Crawford and based at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Summary of research interests, list of publications, conference abstracts, and photographs of lab members.
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