Knowledge: evolutionary psychology
See Also:
- computers → artificial life
- science → biology → evolution
- science → biology → sociobiology
- science → biology → zoology → animal behavior
- science → social sciences → anthropology
Links
- The Descent of Man
http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/ - Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
- The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html - Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
- Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html - An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Evolution's Voyage
http://www.evoyage.com/ - Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
- The Genetics of Complex Traits
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/Feb/hour2_021497.html - Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
- 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.
- The Role of the Skeptic
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Jun/hour2_062196.html - A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
- Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/home.shtml - Replicators are the fundamental units of any process of natural selection. They were first defined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as any entities of which copies are made. The concept of replicators has diverse applications in a variety of areas, including biology, sociology, linguistics, and philosophy.
- Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/ep.html - A article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
- 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?
- 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.
- Evolutionary Psychology
http://www.mgmt.utoronto.ca/~evans/evol/wpevol.htm - Papers on Evolutionary Psychology.
- Synaesthesia
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jul/hour2_072800.html - Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
- Monkey Math
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jan/hour1_010700.html - What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
- Inside the Animal Mind
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animalmind/ - A superb website on animal intelligence.
- Koen DePryck
http://www.kdpgroup.com/ - Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
- Stress and Disease
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour1_122295.html - Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man
http://www.darwinwars.com/ - Information about and from Andrew Brown's book on current debates between the Dawkinsians and the Gouldians over Dawkins' concept of the "selfish gene" and related matters.
- Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/research.html - Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Genetics, Ethics and Theology
http://www.meta-library.net/media/gene-body.html - Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
- Sociobiology and the Meaning of Life
http://www.geocities.com/evo_psych/ - Essay presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Psychology. Features links to related sites.
- 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.
- Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/ - Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
- Frans de Waal
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/waal/ - An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
- Jared Diamond
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/ - An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
- Margaret Hagen
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/ - Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
- 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.
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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.
- World From Within
http://www.saivo.com/ - Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions.
- The Bio-Rational Institute
http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/ - Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
- 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.
- Evolutionary analysis of depression.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Imagined World Made Real
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/plotkin.html - Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- The original 'rock music'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/920305.stm - Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
- 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.ˇ=
- Secrets of the brain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/837632.stm - The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
- 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.
- Evolutionary Psychology
http://www.behavior.net/column/brody/ - Brief introduction to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
- 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.
- Chimpanzees and Romans: Why Animals and Humans Make War
http://www.howardbloom.net/chimpanzees_and_romans.htm - Paleopsychologist/mass-behavior specialist Howard Bloom explains the animal instincts that drove the ancient Greeks and Romans to make war.
- The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/ehap/nesseflier.htm - Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.
- 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.
- Nature/Nurture Debate
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1010508 - Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
- 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."
- Language Gene
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1148343 - NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.
- Pinker on 'The Language Instinct'
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1107515 - NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.
- Evolutionary Psychology
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/evol-psych.html - Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.
- In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/outpost/resource_lesson1.html - Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
- 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.
- 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.
- Film Archive of Human Ethology
http://erl.ornithol.mpg.de/~fshuman/ - Videos and photography of people comparing different cultures.
- 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.
- Sex & Matriarchy: Chapter 1
http://members.aol.com/vwoodhull/chapter1.htm - Read the introductory chapter of Victor Woodhull's "Sex and Matriarchy: Explorations of Male Sexual Deprivation and Other Social Ills", an entertaining blend of satire, parody, and evolutionary psychology.
- No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the Genius Sperm-bank Donors Turn Out?
http://slate.com/id/103402/ - The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine.
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