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• 'Animal traditions: Behavioural inheritance in evolution' reviewed by Herbert Gintis

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/01/at.html
  A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.

• 'How The Mind Works' by Stephen Pinker

  http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/gazdar/teach/atc/1998/revman/sloss.html
  Review by John Sloss.

• A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/darwinc/datlse1.htm
  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

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-love.html
  First chapter.

• A Natural History of Rape

  http://www.kenanmalik.com/reviews/thornhill&palmer.html
  Kenan Malik reviews this book by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.

• A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/thornhill-rape.html
  First chapter.

• A neurosurgeon probes the nature of pain

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/reviews/000917.17groopmt.html
  Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr

• A Universe of Consciousness - Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/edelmang/univeroc.htm
  A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.

• Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned

  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.

• All About Evil

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/reviews/001029.29pinkert.html
  Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.

• Almost like a Whale (Darwin's Ghost) - Steve Jones

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/joness/whale.htm
  A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale'(published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones.

• An Ape-Man Is Hard to Find

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/reviews/010121.21wilfort.html
  John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.

• Analyze This Guy

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29nussbat.html
  Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.

• Another Branch of the Family

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/18/reviews/000618.18doolitt.html
  W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge

• Are You in Anthropodenial?

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/reviews/010408.08fostert.html
  Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.

• Ask Darwin's Grandma

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/ask-darwins-grandma
  Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.

• Back to the Stone Age

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/31/reviews/001231.31goodet.html
  Erica Goode reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.

• Believe It or Not

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/23/reviews/000123.23lefkowt.html
  Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

• Biology in Progress

  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/17/scienceandnature.highereducation
  Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.

• Books of the Times

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/032400gutmann-book-review.html
  Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.

• Boys to Men

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/25/reviews/000625.25colest.html
  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 .

• Branching Out

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06dawkint.html
  Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

• Brief Tragedies

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/brief-tragedies
  Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.

• Buff and Ready

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/reviews/010211.11brubact.html
  Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.

• Burrow, Evolution and Society

  http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper78.html
  This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.

• Buttering Up

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/reviews/000910.10klei.html
  Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.

• Carnal Knowledge

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/28/reviews/010128.28weavert.html
  Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.

• Cherishment by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/y/young-bruehl-cherishment.html
  First chapter.

• Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tierney-dorado.html
  First chapter.

• Darwin Gets a Makeover

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/443006.stm
  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.

• Darwin's Dirty Secret

  http://www.discovery.org/a/164
  Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.

• Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/j/jones-ghost.html
  First chapter.

• Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/phillipsa/dsworms.htm
  A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

• Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/phillips-worms.html
  First chapter.

• Darwinian Soup

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n12/wg-runciman/darwinian-soup
  W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

• Don't Bring Home the Bacon

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/reviews/001217.17schneet.html
  J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.

• Down the Hatch

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/reviews/000312.12kellert.html
  Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.

• Even Baboons Get the Blues

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/01/reviews/010401.01nixont.html
  Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.

• Everybody Into the Gene Pool

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23durantt.html
  John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.

• Evolution and Human Origins

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/origins.html
  Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.

• Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior by Jack A. Palmer and Linda K. Palmer

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/palmer.html
  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.

• Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tattersall-extinct.html
  First chapter.

• From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/10/reviews/001210.10schwent.html
  Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.

• From Brains to Consciousness (Rose)

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Brains_Consciousness.html
  A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind".

• From Grunting to Grammar

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16bloomt.html
  Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.

• Fruit Fly Genetics

  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/mar/29/technology2
  Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.

• Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/cavalli-sforza-genes.html
  First chapter.

• Genetically Manipulated Humans?

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/swashbuckling-into-the-nebulous-future
  Diane B. Paul reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock.

• Goddess Theory

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/reviews/000917.17angiert.html
  Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.

• Heartburn

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/reviews/000213.13weavert.html
  Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.

• Hearts of Darkness

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/reviews/001112.12horgant.html
  John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.

• Her Way by Paula Kamen

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kamen-her.html
  First chapter.

• How Far From the Tree?

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/20/reviews/000820.20ridleyt.html
  Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.

• Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin)

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Human_Diversity.html
  A review by Danny Yee of Lewontin's introduction to human genetics and human biology.

• Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupré

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/leok.html
  "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.

• Humanity by Jonathan Glover

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/glover-humanity.html
  First chapter.

• Iceman by Brenda Fowler

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fowler-iceman.html
  First chapter.

• In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gee-time.html
  First chapter.

• In the Heart, or in the Head?

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27schillt.html
  Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.

• Intelligence

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/books/04FINK.html
  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

• Jacobson's Organ by Lyall Watson

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/watson-organ.html
  First chapter.

• John D. Wagner reviews The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/mm.html
  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.

• Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/demott-woman.html
  First chapter.

• Klein on Human Evolution

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/a-bare-bones-account-of-human-evolution
  Derek Bickerton reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar.

• La Difference

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/11/reviews/990711.11holtlt.html
  Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.

• Language and Gesture

  http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/1999/2/the-gestural-origins-of-language/6
  Dario Maestripieri reviews From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis.

• Life After God

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/28/reviews/000528.28marcust.html
  Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

• Limits of the Genetic Lexicon

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/limits-of-the-genetic-lexicon
  Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

• Lingua Ex Machina by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/calvin-ex.html
  First chapter.

• Linked: Barabasi ratifies Kauffman, demotes the social gene by James Brody

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/linked.html
  Linked offers many heuristic possibilities if your interests are in genetic, neural, electronic, or social organizations.

• Little Gray Cells

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/11/reviews/990711.11strawst.html
  Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.

• Looking Good by Lynne Luciano

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/luciano-looking.html
  First chapter.

• Lynn O'Connor reviews A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/leo.html
  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.

• Major Transitions in Evolution

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Major_Transitions.html
  John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary look at a range of topics in evolutionary biology, from abiogenesis to the origins of societies and language.

• Make War, Not Nice!

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/reviews/000507.07gilligt.html
  Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann

• Map of Life

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27silvert.html
  Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.

• Maternal Instinct

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/23/reviews/000123.23magurrt.html
  Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

• Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/burnham-genes.html
  First chapter.

• Metaphors and Models

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/explanatory-styles-in-science
  David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.

• Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse

  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.

• Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/darwinc/datlse2.htm
  A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.

• Neil Levy reviews Evolutionary Origins of Morality edited by Leonard D. Katz

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/levy.html
  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?

• No Job for a Woman

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/04/reviews/010304.04shapirt.html
  Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.

• Nobody Does It Better

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16holtlt.html
  Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.

• Nonzero by Robert Wright

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wright-nonzero.html
  First chapter.

• Not an Inkling

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/jerry-coyne/not-an-inkling
  Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.

• Nymphomania by Carol Groneman

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/groneman-nymphomania.html
  First chapter.

• On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wollheim-emotions.html
  First chapter.

• Paul Ehrlich challenges evolutionary psychology and the 'selfish gene' in his new book, Human Natures: 9/00

  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/00/humans920.html
  Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

• Planters vs. Weeders

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/planters-vs-weeders
  John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.

• Posthumans

  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/messing-with-mother-nature
  Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.

• Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Promiscuity.html
  Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.

• Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/queerscience.htm
  First chapter.

• Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wise-cage.html
  First chapter.

• Real Boys' Voices by William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pollack-voices.html
  First chapter.

• Rebel With a Cause

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/reviews/000423.23mainest.html
  Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

• Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/boyer.html
  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.

• Robin Dunbar reviews Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through our Genes by Steve Olson

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/olson.html
  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.

• Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man'

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/18/education.highereducation
  Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve' by David Horrobin.

• She's Gotta Have It

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/06/reviews/000806.06jaymut.html
  Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.

• So much for genes

  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n05/adrian-woolfson/so-much-for-genes
  Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

• So, This Parrot Comes Into a Bar and Says . . .

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/30/reviews/000130.30heinrit.html
  Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.

• Software Etc

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/reviews/000521.21johnsot.html
  George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.

• Speak, Monkey

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/reviews/000312.12pagelt.html
  George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.

• Split Personality

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/07/reviews/000507.07halllt.html
  Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.

• Stupid Pet Tricks

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/11/reviews/010311.11gormant.html
  James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.

• Survival of the Rapist

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/02/reviews/000402.002waalt.html
  Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

• Swim Meet

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/29/reviews/010429.29raeburt.html
  Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.

• Taboo by Jon Entine

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/entine-taboo.html
  First chapter.

• Talking About Wu Wei

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/reviews/000326.26wilsont.html
  Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.

• The Alex Studies by Irene Maxine Pepperberg

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pepperberg-alex.html
  First chapter.

• The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/divphil/burtonr.htm
  A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.

• The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/dewaal-sushi.html
  First chapter.

• The Century of the Gene

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/10/reviews/001210.10magurrt.html
  Anne Magurran reviews this book by Evelyn Fox Keller. Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life.

• The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/keller-gene.html
  First chapter.

• The Dangerous Passion by David Buss

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/buss-passion.html
  First chapter.

• The Dream of the Human Genome

  http://dannyreviews.com/h/Dream_Human_Genome.html
  A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".

• The First Sex by Helen Fisher

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fisher-first.html
  First chapter.

• The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/hand.htm
  First chapter.

• The human stain

  http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/apr/28/scienceandnature.medicalscience
  John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.

• The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/gutmann-military.html
  First chapter.

• The Language of Genes - Steve Jones

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/joness/genes.htm
  A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.

• The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/shipman-link.html
  First chapter.

• The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/miller-mating.html
  First chapter.

• The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/blackmrs/mememach.htm
  A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

• The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/henig-monk.html
  First chapter.

• The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/eller-myth.html
  First chapter.

• The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0716740044&displayonly=excerpt
  First chapter.

• The Origin of Language by Desmond Fearnley-Sander

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/spr.html
  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'.

• The Prince of Peas

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/27/reviews/000827.27cainlt.html
  Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.

• The Sixth Sense

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/09/reviews/000409.09finkbet.html
  Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.

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

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/symbolicspecies.htm
  First chapter.

• The Triple Helix - Richard Lewontin

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/lewontin/tripleh.htm
  A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.

• The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/budiansky-truth.html
  First chapter.

• The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/t/tudge-variety.html
  First chapter.

• The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sommers-war.html
  First chapter.

• True (altruistic) love is hard to find by Markus Kemmelmeier

  http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/love.html
  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.'"

• Truth by Felipe Fernández-Armesto

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fernandez-truth.html
  First Chapter.

• Understanding It All

  http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper86.html
  Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.

• Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins

  http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/dawkinsr/unweaving.htm
  A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.

• Victorian Sensation - James A. Secord

  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.

• Wag the Human

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/29/reviews/001029.29gormant.html
  James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky.

• Well Preserved for His Age

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/reviews/000521.21papinet.html
  David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler

• What's the Forecast?

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16turnert.html
  John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.

• Whatever Turns You On

  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.

• Where Are We Headed?

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/30/reviews/000130.30conwayt.html
  Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.

• Who Wrote the Book of Life?

  http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=+3417
  A review of this book, subtitled 'A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.

• Why Boys Will Be Boys

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/10/08/reviews/001008.08bickert.html
  Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.

• Wild Minds by Marc D. Hauser

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hauser-wild.html
  First chapter.

• Women Behaving Badly

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/01/28/reviews/010128.28eak.html
  Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.

• X + Y = Z

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20angiert.html
  Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.

• You Can't Get There From Here

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27richart.html
  Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.

• You're Too Kind by Richard Stengel

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stengel-kind.html
  First chapter.

• You've Got an Attitude

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/reviews/000326.26mattict.html
  Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.

 

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