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• Unlocking the brain's potential - Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows.
  
• Richard 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.
  
• The Undiscovered Mind - A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research.
  
• Sociobiology and the Meaning of Life - Essay presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Psychology. Features links to related sites.
  
• Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence - British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.ˇ=
  
• No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the Genius Sperm-bank Donors Turn Out? - The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine.
  
• The Role of the Skeptic - A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
  
• The Imagined World Made Real - Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences - This article attempts to describe evolutionary psychology and the challenge it poses to traditional social science, and then discusses opportunities evolutionary psychology opens for Christian apologetics.
  
• The Descent of Man - Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
  
• Daniel J. Kruger: Evolutionary Psychology - This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002.
  
• The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ - Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
  
• The Bio-Rational Institute - Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
  
• The Dance of Consciousness - In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action.
  
• Psychology, Culture, and Evolution - 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.
  
• Secrets of the brain - The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
  
• Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man - Information about and from Andrew Brown's book on current debates between the Dawkinsians and the Gouldians over Dawkins' concept of the "selfish gene" and related matters.
  
• Women's Choice of Men Goes in Cycles - 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.
  
• Evolution's Voyage - Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
  
• Sue Savage-Rumbaugh - Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
  
• Pinker on 'The Language Instinct' - NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.
  
• Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition - Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.
  
• NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior - Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."
  
• Flight from Science and Reason - Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in science and academia.
  
• Orlando 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
  
• Stress and Disease - Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
  
• Language Gene - NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.
  
• So you think you're logical? - An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology.
  
• Frank 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'.
  
• The Future of Human Evolution - 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.
  
• Brain Development - A broadcast in RealAudio from the annual meeting of the AAAS: Marion Diamond and others on how genes and the environment work together to shape the young developing brain.
  
• Jared Diamond - An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
  
• Human Origins Update - The recent discovery of 10,000-year-old rock paintings in a Brazilian cave has led scientists to question how early humans populated the Americas and what they did for a living. A discussion with Anna Roosevelt and Richard Klein.
  
• Chimpanzees and Romans: Why Animals and Humans Make War - Paleopsychologist/mass-behavior specialist Howard Bloom explains the animal instincts that drove the ancient Greeks and Romans to make war.
  
• Identifying the accident prone - Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
  
• Human Genome Project - Where does the push to sequence the human genome stand, and what's the outlook for the near future? And what will knowing the genome be able to tell us? A genetics update on this hour of Science Friday.
  
• Frans de Waal - An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby - An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
  
• Evolutionary psychology - 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.
  
• The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA - Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.
  
• Toward a Revised Evolutionary Adaptationist Analysis of Depression: The Social Navigation Hypothesis - Presents the niche change model of depression, proposing evolutionary adaptationist functions for minor and major depression to be considered by patients and their families, as well as mental health professionals. [PDF]
  
• Margaret Hagen - Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
  
• Human Culture, Human Mind - A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein.
  
• Sex, Drugs, and Cults - 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.
  
• Inside the Animal Mind - A superb website on animal intelligence.
  
• What makes a good rumour? - A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?
  
• World From Within - Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions.
  
• Genetics, Ethics and Theology - Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
  
• Nature/Nurture Debate - Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
  
• The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy - Wwb site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.
  
• Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash - A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker.
  
• Origins of Language - When did we first start talking and how did language evolve over the millenniums into the diverse form of communication it is today? An audio debate.
  
• The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program - Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.
  
• In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas - Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
  
• Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures - How much do our genes determine our behavior? Is there such a thing as "genetic destiny?" And is evolution merely a biological process, or is it a cultural process as well?
  
• The Science of Beauty - Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
  
• Film Archive of Human Ethology - Videos and photography of people comparing different cultures.
  
• The Genetics of Complex Traits - Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
  
• The Origin of Language - UsingEnglish.com - 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.
  
• When babies 'see' - Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research.
  
• Monkey Math - What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
  
• The original 'rock music' - Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology - An article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology - Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.
  
• Synaesthesia - Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
  
• Koen DePryck - Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
  
• Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution - Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
  
  

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