Psychology
- 1061
- Survival of the Rapist
- Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
- 1062
- Swim Meet
- Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.
- 1064
- Talking About Wu Wei
- Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.
- 1066
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
- A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.
- 1068
- The Century of the Gene
- Anne Magurran reviews this book by Evelyn Fox Keller. Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life.
- 1071
- The Dream of the Human Genome
- A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".
- 1074
- The Language of Genes - Steve Jones
- A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
- 1077
- The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore
- A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
- 1080
- The Origin of Language by Desmond Fearnley-Sander
- 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'.