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Psychology, Culture, and Evolution - http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, links to cultural-historical psychology, and links to articles about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality. |
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So you think you're logical? - http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/logic_task.htm
An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology. |
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Film Archive of Human Ethology - http://erl.orn.mpg.de/~fshuman/en/eindex.html
Videos and photography of people comparing different cultures. |
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Daniel J. Kruger: Evolutionary Psychology - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/
This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002. |
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Origins of Language - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Sep/hour2_090895.html
When did we first start talking and how did language evolve over the millenniums into the diverse form of communication it is today? An audio debate. |
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Inside the Animal Mind - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animalmind/
A superb website on animal intelligence. |
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Evolution's Voyage - http://www.evoyage.com/
Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists. |
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The Future of Human Evolution - http://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.html
Paper by nick Bostrom exploring some dystopian scenarios where evolutionary developments, while continuing to produce complex and intelligent forms of organization, lead to the gradual elimination of all forms of being that we care about. |
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/
Audio conversations with the noted primatologist. |
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The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy - http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/
Wwb site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information. |
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Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/ep.html
An article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair. |
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Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/pinker.html
A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. |
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Richard Wrangham - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wrangham/
Audio interview with the Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book 'Demonic Males' popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior. |
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The Bio-Rational Institute - http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/
Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience. |
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Sex, Drugs, and Cults - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html
An evolutionary perspective on sex, drugs, cults, religions, and ideologies by H. Keith Henson, including a hair-raising account of the author's encounters with the scientiology cult. |
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Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution - http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/hbook/start.htm
Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. |
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Toward a Revised Evolutionary Adaptationist Analysis of Depression: The Social Navigation Hypothesis - http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/Watson_Andrews2002.pdf
Presents the niche change model of depression, proposing evolutionary adaptationist functions for minor and major depression to be considered by patients and their families, as well as mental health professionals. |
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The Dance of Consciousness - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/freeman/
In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action. |
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Frans de Waal - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/waal/
An audio interview with the primatologist and author. |
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The Origin of Language - UsingEnglish.com - http://www.usingenglish.com/speaking-out/universal-grammar.html
Some thoughts on the 'origin of language' debate, and the arguments put forward by Steels and MacWhinney, in contrast to those put forward by Chomsky and Pinker. |
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Margaret Hagen - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception. |
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Orlando Patterson - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/patterson/
Audio interview with the historical sociologist and Professor at Harvard University. He won the 1991 National Book Award for Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, appears regularly in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Republic. He also served as special adviser for social policy and development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley during the 1970's, was on the faculty at the London School of Economics, and has published three novels. |
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Frank Sulloway - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/sulloway/
Audio interview with the visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, author of 'Born to Rebel'. |
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Human Genome Project - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jun/hour1_060900.html
Where does the push to sequence the human genome stand, and what's the outlook for the near future? And what will knowing the genome be able to tell us? A genetics update on this hour of Science Friday. |
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The Role of the Skeptic - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Jun/hour2_062196.html
A discussion including Eugenie Scott. |
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Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Oct/hour2_102700.html
How much do our genes determine our behavior? Is there such a thing as "genetic destiny?" And is evolution merely a biological process, or is it a cultural process as well? |
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The Undiscovered Mind - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/Sep/hour2_092499.html
A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research. |
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Stress and Disease - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour1_122295.html
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress. |
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Human Culture, Human Mind - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour2_121595.html
A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein. |
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The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA - http://www.humancondition.info/
Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil. |
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What makes a good rumour? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/934357.stm
A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful? |
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World From Within - http://www.saivo.com/
Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions. |
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Evolutionary psychology - http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/evpsy.htm
A comprehensive evolutionary psychology must be able to deal with our future psychological evolution as well as our past. This paper begins the extension of evolutionary psychology to our future evolution. |
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Unlocking the brain's potential - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1211299.stm
Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows. |
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Women's Choice of Men Goes in Cycles - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/376321.stm
The BBC reports that women are attracted to more hunky men at the most fertile time of their menstrual cycle - this may be part of an evolutionary explanation of infidelity. |
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Identifying the accident prone - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1100347.stm
Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers. |
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When babies 'see' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1037328.stm
Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research. |
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Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/844217.stm
British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence. = |
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Jared Diamond - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer. |
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Flight from Science and Reason - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Jul/hour2_072895.html
Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in science and academia. |
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Human Origins Update - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/May/hour1_051096.html
The recent discovery of 10,000-year-old rock paintings in a Brazilian cave has led scientists to question how early humans populated the Americas and what they did for a living. A discussion with Anna Roosevelt and Richard Klein. |
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Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences - http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/Evolution/PSCF9-98Zimmer.html
This article attempts to describe evolutionary psychology and the challenge it poses to traditional social science, and then discusses opportunities evolutionary psychology opens for Christian apologetics. |
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Brain Development - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Feb/hour1_020996.html
A broadcast in RealAudio from the annual meeting of the AAAS: Marion Diamond and others on how genes and the environment work together to shape the young developing brain. |
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NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior - http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1071573
Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior." |
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The Science of Beauty - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Mar/hour2_030395.html
Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty. |