A skeptical assessment by Herbert Gintis.

Review by John Sloss.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.

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Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr

Anthony Clare reviews 'Perfidious Man' by Will Self and David Gamble.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.

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.

Paul Higgs reviews the book edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.

Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.

A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale'(published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones.

John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.

Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.

W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge

David Sexton reviews 'Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.

Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.

Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.

Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.

Erica Goode 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.

Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.

Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.

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 Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.

Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.

Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.

This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.

Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.

Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.

Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.

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Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.

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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.

Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.

Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.

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Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

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W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.

A review by Michael Shermer.

Mary Midgley reviews 'Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins.

J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.

Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.

Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.

John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.

Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.

Muriel Egerton reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.

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.

Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price

Zoë Mullan reviews 'Synaesthesia: the strangest thing' by John Harrison.

Sean A. Spence reviews Consciousness by Rita Carter.

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Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.

A review of Stephen Rose's "From Brains to Consciousness Essays on the New Sciences of the Mind".

Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.

Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.

Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.

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Anne Magurran reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

Diane B. Paul reviews Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future by Gregory Stock.

Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.

Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.

John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.

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Paul Crichton reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.

Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.

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.

"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.

Nicole Chardenet reviews 'Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence' by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson.

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Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.

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

Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.

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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.

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Derek Bickerton reviews The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein with Blake Edgar.

Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.

Dario Maestripieri reviews From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis.

Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

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Linked offers many heuristic possibilities if your interests are in genetic, neural, electronic, or social organizations.

Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.

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David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.

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.

John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary look at a range of topics in evolutionary biology, from abiogenesis to the origins of societies and language.

Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann

Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.

Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.

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David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.

John Gribbin reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.

A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.

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?

Edward Marriott reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: Love Death and Baboons in East Africa' by Robert Sapolsky.

Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.

Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.

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A review of Robert Wright's book by David Sloan Wilson.

Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.

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Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.

Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.

Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.

Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.

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Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt.

Hilary Rose reviews 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.

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Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.

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.

Online article by Daniel Dennett.

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.

Kurt Kleiner reviews Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights by Steven M. Wise.

Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik.

Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam & Eve' by David Horrobin.

Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.

A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.

Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.

Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.

George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.

George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.

Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.

James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.

Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.

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Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.

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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.

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A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".

Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think' by Mark Buchanan.

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John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.

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A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.

Anthony Clare reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity' by David Horrobin.

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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

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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'.

Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.

Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.

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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.

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Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.

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.'"

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Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.

A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Victorian Sensation' by James A. Secord.

James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky.

Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.

David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler

John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.

Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller.

Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.

Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.

Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.

Solomon W. Golomb reviews 'Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.

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Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.

Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.

Robert Wright reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.

Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.

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Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.