Reviews Publications Evolutionary Psychology Psychology

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

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• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.
  
• - W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
  
• - Mary Midgley reviews 'Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins.
  
• - Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.
  
• - Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - 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: T
  
• - Erica Goode reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
  
• - Kurt Kleiner reviews Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights by Steven M. Wise.
  
• - John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.
  
• - Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
  
• - Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
  
• - David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• - David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.
  
• - Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.
  
• - Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
  
• - Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
  
• - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale'(published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones.
  
• - Anthony Clare reviews 'Perfidious Man' by Will Self and David Gamble.
  
• - Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.
  
• - 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?
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.
  
• - David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler
  
• - Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.
  
• - Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.
  
• - A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
  
• - Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
  
• - W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge
  
• - Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.
  
• - Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.
  
• - 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.
  
• - John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
  
• - Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
  
• - Anthony Clare reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity' by David Horrobin.
  
• - J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
  
• - Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
  
• - First Chapter.
  
• - Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
  
• - Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
  
• - Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.
  
• - Sean A. Spence reviews Consciousness by Rita Carter.
  
• - A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - 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.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.
  
• - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse.
  
• - Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam & Eve' by David Horrobin.
  
• - A review by Massimo Pigliucci of Edward Caudill's "Darwinian Myths: The Legends and Misuses of a Theory."
  
• - A review by Danny Yee of Lewontin's introduction to human genetics and human biology.
  
• - 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
  
• - Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price
  
• - Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
  
• - Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
  
• - John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary look at a range of topics in evolutionary biology, from abiogenesis to the origins of societies and language.
  
• - John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
  
• - Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• - 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 defin
  
• - Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.
  
• - Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
  
• - Hilary Rose reviews 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.
  
• - Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.
  
• - Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.
  
• - Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.
  
• - Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.
  
• - Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.
  
• - A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.
  
• - Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
  
• - 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
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - 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.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.
  
• - Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
  
• - This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.
  
• - Dario Maestripieri reviews From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis.
  
• - Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.
  
• - A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind".
  
• - Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Zoë Mullan reviews 'Synaesthesia: the strangest thing' by John Harrison.
  
• - Anne Magurran reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• - Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.
  
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• - A review by Michael Shermer.
  
• - Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.
  
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• - Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
  
• - Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann
  
• - Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt.
  
• - Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
  
• - 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 .
  
• - Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Muriel Egerton reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
  
• - Online article by Daniel Dennett.
  
• - Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• - Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
  
• - Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
  
• - Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
  
• - George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
  
• - James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky.
  
• - Linked offers many heuristic possibilities if your interests are in genetic, neural, electronic, or social organizations.
  
• - Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.
  
• - Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.
  
• - First chapter.
  
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• - Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller.
  
• - Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.
  
• - Robert Wright reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
  
• - Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.
  
• - Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.
  
• - Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
  
• - Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.
  
• - John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Solomon W. Golomb reviews 'Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - A review of Robert Wright's book by David Sloan Wilson.
  
• - Nicole Chardenet reviews 'Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence' by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson.
  
• - Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.
  
• - Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
  
• - Paul Crichton reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - "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
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think' by Mark Buchanan.
  
• - Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
  
• - James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.
  
• - David Sexton reviews 'Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - John Gribbin reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
  
• - Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.
  
• - Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
  
• - Edward Marriott reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: Love Death and Baboons in East Africa' by Robert Sapolsky.
  
• - Diane B. Paul reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Derek Bickerton reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar.
  
• - George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Victorian Sensation' by James A. Secord.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Review by John Sloss.
  
• - Paul Higgs reviews the book edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".
  
• - First chapter.
  
• - Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.
  
• - Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.
  
• - Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
  
  

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