 | Evolving Brains (Scientific American Library Paperback) by John Allman
Buy used from: $99.00 A big picture biological view of intelligent behavior
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 | Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David M. Buss
Buy used from: $7.13 Excellent and well organized text represents the topic
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 | The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $16.00 Perhaps the seminal scholarly work: stone age minds in modern skulls
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 | Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans
Buy used from: $4.50 Cute cartoon intro: good, but a bit over the top in spots
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 | Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond by Ullica Segerstrale
Buy used from: $9.95 Revealing look at the wild and wooly debates over the biological view of social behavior
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 | Man, Beast, and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature by Kenan Malik
Buy used from: $4.81 A particularly reasonable view of the limits of our knowledge of human nature,
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 | The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man by Andrew Brown
Buy used from: $26.79 Highly recommended: clear and useful discussions of the most controversial areas like morality and "memes"
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 | The Biology of Moral Systems (Foundations of Human Behavior) by Richard Alexander
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $4.39 What can biology tell us about morality ? Perhaps more than we think.
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 | The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Violence by Michael P. Ghiglieri
Buy used from: $7.50 Explore the less pleasant implications of evolutionary psychology
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 | The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies Of Human Mating by David M. Buss
Buy used from: $1.16 Our obsession with sex, and EP has a lot to say about it
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 | The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
Buy used from: $9.99 Sexual selection, Darwin's "other theory," how did it shape us ?
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 | Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect by Paul R. Ehrlich
Buy new: $36.50 / Used from: $0.72 A sophisticated rebuttal to "selfish genes" emphasizing pluralism of human "natures"
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 | Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour by Kevin N. Laland
Buy new: $33.50 / Used from: $19.98 Compare and contrast the major evolutionary approaches to human behavior
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 | Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $5.99 How EP-derived inference systems may help explain the patterns in our beliefs
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 | Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology: Ideas, Issues, and Applications
Buy new: $150.00 / Used from: $49.43 Possibly the single most comprehensive volume on the subject
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 | Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach by Steven J.C. Gaulin
Buy used from: $4.99 Covers the basics very well, though it misses the interesting current topic of active gene-environment correlation, or living things creating their own niches.
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 | Sex and Cognition (Bradford Books) by Doreen Kimura
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $12.00 Strongest technical work yet on sex differences in thinking and problem solving and their biological origins.
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 | Sex Differences: Developmental and Evolutionary Strategies by Linda Mealey
Buy new: $91.95 / Used from: $30.00 Another solid work on sex differences, this one focusing on parenting and mating behaviors.
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 | The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.42 One of the best introductions to the evolutionary psychology line of thinking. Solid, clear and illuminating, epecially for those unfamiliar with the concepts.
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 | Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupre
Buy used from: $29.95 Another mostly ideological critique of EP, suggesting a more pluralistic approach and focusing on what EP can't explain but missing what it can explain
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 | Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $6.95 What does our continuity with primates really tell us, about ourselves and about them ?
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 | Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are by Steven R. Quartz
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $0.93 What the authors call "cultural biology," emphasizing recent brain science and study of personality development.
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 | The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit by Melvin J. Konner
Buy used from: $5.99 This may well be the single best book yet written on evolution and its relation to human behavior in general. Detailed and scientific, while also grand in scope without sacrificing much depth.
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 | Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson
Buy used from: $18.99 How culture and evolution interact: essential to understanding the spread and change of ideas
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 | In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion (Evolution and Cognition Series) by Scott Atran
Buy used from: $19.90 The difficult problem of explaining human religion serves as an excellent platform for introducing the theory of distinct evolved cognitive domains
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 | Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $2.20 In spite of its fertility and popularity, Evolutionary Psychology is really still in its infancy as a science, so it is important that the field have new updated summaries and introductions every few years. This book is both.
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