Psychology
- 1041
- Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse
- A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse.
- 1042
- Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge
- A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.
- 1043
- Neil Levy reviews Evolutionary Origins of Morality edited by Leonard D. Katz
- 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?
- 1045
- Nobody Does It Better
- Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
- 1049
- Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
- Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
- 1052
- Rebel With a Cause
- Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
- 1053
- Religion Explained: The Human Instincts That Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer
- 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.
- 1054
- Robin Dunbar reviews Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through our Genes by Steve Olson
- 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.
- 1056
- So, This Parrot Comes Into a Bar and Says . . .
- Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
- 1057
- Software Etc
- George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.