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• Daniel J. Kruger: Evolutionary Psychology

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/
  This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002.

• 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.

• Evolutionary Psychology

  http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/evol-psych.html
  Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.

• Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences

  http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1998/PSCF9-98Zimmer.html
  Article by J Raymond Zimmer describing evolutionary psychology and the challenge it poses to traditional social science, and then discussing opportunities evolutionary psychology opens for Christian apologetics.

• Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby

  http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html
  An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.

• Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/ep.html
  An article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.

• 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'.

• Frans de Waal

  http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/waal/
  An audio interview with the primatologist and author.

• Genetics, Ethics and Theology

  http://www.counterbalance.net/media/gene-body.html
  Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.

• 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.

• Human Ethology

  http://www.humanethology.org.uk/
  The hidden subconscious of an individual. Humans can display the reason for psychic perceptions or physical conditions and are able to adapt to those conditions at an early stage.

• 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.

• In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas

  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.

• Jared Diamond

  http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/
  An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.

• Language Gene

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1148343
  NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.

• Margaret Hagen

  http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/
  Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.

• Molwick: The EDI Study

  http://www.molwick.com/en/iq-study/index.html
  Statistical research of the hereditary nature of intelligence with IQ data source. Evidence of evolution supporting the Global Cognitive Theory.

• Nature/Nurture Debate

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1010508
  Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.

• 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.

• NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1071573
  Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."

• 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.

• Pinker on 'The Language Instinct'

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1107515
  NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.

• 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.

• 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.

• Richard Wrangham

  http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wrangham/
  Audio interview with the Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book 'Demonic Males' popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior.

• 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.ˇ=

• Secrets of the brain

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/837632.stm
  The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.

• 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.

• Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/
  Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.

• 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.

• The Descent of Man

  http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/
  Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.

• The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program

  http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/ehap/
  Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.

• The Evolutionary Development of Life Forms

  http://www.seancopland.com/evolution/
  Grand unification theory covering psychology, religion, politics, economics, and personal relationships.

• The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ

  http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html
  Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.

• The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA

  http://www.humancondition.info/
  Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.

• 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.

• The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy

  http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/
  Web site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.

• 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.

• The Origin of Language Debate - UsingEnglish.com

  http://www.usingenglish.com/speaking-out/origin-language-debate.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.

• The original 'rock music'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/920305.stm
  Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.

• Theory of Sexual Selection: The Human Mind and the Peacock’s Tale

  http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/sexualselection.html
  Essay by Caspar Hewett on sexual selection in peacocks and its relevance to the human mind.

• 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.

• 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.

• What makes a good rumour?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/934357.stm
  A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?

• 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.

• 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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