SOCIAL SCIENCES EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

The Role of the Skeptic
A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
www.sciencefriday.com

Nature/Nurture Debate
Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
discover.npr.org

Inside the Animal Mind
A superb website on animal intelligence.
www.pbs.org

Genetics, Ethics and Theology
Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
www.meta-library.net

Frans de Waal
An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
www.paulagordon.com

Margaret Hagen
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
www.paulagordon.com

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
www.paulagordon.com

Pinker on 'The Language Instinct'
NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.
discover.npr.org

The Genetics of Complex Traits
Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
www.sciencefriday.com

Evolutionary Psychology
Brief introduction to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
www.behavior.net

Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
www.psych.ucsb.edu

Stress and Disease
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
www.sciencefriday.com

The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ
Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
www.anth.ucsb.edu

Evolutionary Psychology
Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.
cscs.umich.edu

NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior
Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."
discover.npr.org

The Imagined World Made Real
Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture.
human-nature.com

The Science of Beauty
Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
www.sciencefriday.com

Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
www.massey.ac.nz

The Bio-Rational Institute
Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
www.biorationalinstitute.com

Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology
An article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
human-nature.com

The Descent of Man
Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
www.abc.net.au

The Undiscovered Mind
A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research.
www.sciencefriday.com

Secrets of the brain
The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
news.bbc.co.uk

Koen DePryck
Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
www.kdpgroup.com

Jared Diamond
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
www.paulagordon.com

World From Within
Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions.
www.saivo.com

Synaesthesia
Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
www.sciencefriday.com

Evolution's Voyage
Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
www.evoyage.com

Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash
A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker.
human-nature.com

Identifying the accident prone
Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
news.bbc.co.uk

So you think you're logical?
An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology.
www.philosophersnet.com

Sociobiology and the Meaning of Life
Essay presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Psychology. Features links to related sites.
www.geocities.com

The original 'rock music'
Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
news.bbc.co.uk

Flight from Science and Reason
Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in science and academia.
www.sciencefriday.com

The Dance of Consciousness
In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action.
www.paulagordon.com

No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the Genius Sperm-bank Donors Turn Out?
The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine. (March 30, 2001)
slate.com

Monkey Math
What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -and of psychology?
www.sciencefriday.com

When babies 'see'
Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research.
news.bbc.co.uk

Language Gene
NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language. (August 15, 2002)
discover.npr.org

Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition
Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.
ruccs.rutgers.edu

The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA
Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.
www.humancondition.info

In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas
Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
www.nationalgeographic.com

Chimpanzees and Romans: Why Animals and Humans Make War
Paleopsychologist/mass-behavior specialist Howard Bloom explains the animal instincts that drove the ancient Greeks and Romans to make war.
www.howardbloom.net

Daniel J. Kruger: Evolutionary Psychology
This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002.
www-personal.umich.edu

The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy
Wwb site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.
www.thegreatdebate.org.uk

What makes a good rumour?
A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?
news.bbc.co.uk

Human Culture, Human Mind
A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein.
www.sciencefriday.com

Unlocking the brain's potential
Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows.
news.bbc.co.uk

The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program
Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.
www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu

Origins of Language
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.
www.sciencefriday.com

Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence
British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.ˇ= (July 21, 2000)
news.bbc.co.uk

The Origin of Language - UsingEnglish.com
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.
www.usingenglish.com

Frank 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'.
www.paulagordon.com

Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures
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?
www.sciencefriday.com

Sex, Drugs, and Cults
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.
human-nature.com

Psychology, Culture, and Evolution
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.
watarts.uwaterloo.ca

Women's Choice of Men Goes in Cycles
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. (June 24, 1999)
news.bbc.co.uk

Brain Development
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. (February 9, 1996)
www.sciencefriday.com

Human Genome Project
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.
www.sciencefriday.com

Evolutionary psychology
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.
www4.tpg.com.au

Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences
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.
www.asa3.org

Toward a Revised Evolutionary Adaptationist Analysis of Depression: The Social Navigation Hypothesis
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. [PDF]
biology.unm.edu

Human Origins Update
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.
www.sciencefriday.com

Richard 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.
www.paulagordon.com

Orlando 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.
www.paulagordon.com