Psychology
- 1064
- Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
- Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
- 1067
- Rebel With a Cause
- Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
- 1068
- 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.
- 1069
- 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.
- 1071
- 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.
- 1072
- Software Etc
- George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
- 1074
- Split Personality
- Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
- 1075
- Stupid Pet Tricks
- James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
- 1076
- 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
- 1077
- Swim Meet
- Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.