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- 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.
- Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.
- A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research.
- The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine.
- Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
- This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002.
- The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
- Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
- Discussion group and archive.
- Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture.
- Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
- MFTSource.com Theory Page on Evolutionary Psychology organizes useful clinical resources for working from this framework on a variety of issues and diagnoses.
- Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
- A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker.
- Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.
- Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
- An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
- 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 area
- 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.
- 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.
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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.
- Videos and photography of people comparing different cultures.
- Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
- Humans have evolved to rely very heavily on cooperation with conspecifics. This web page presents the best possible explanation for this complex phenomenon.
- 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.
- An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology.
- British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.ˇ=
- Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
- Paleopsychologist/mass-behavior specialist Howard Bloom explains the animal instincts that drove the ancient Greeks and Romans to make war.
- Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
- Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.
- Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
- An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
- 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.
- A superb website on animal intelligence.
- Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
- 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.
- Comprehensive coverage of the scholarly work of the writer, lecturer, & consultant on population, development, & related social, political, & ethical problems.
- Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research.
- Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
- 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.
- Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.
- An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
- In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action.
- Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
- A article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
- 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.
- PDF by Edward Hagen of UCSB.
- Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."
- Evolutionary Psychology is a relatively new approach that treats the human mind as a product of evolution. According to EP, the human mind consists of mental modules that, like the body's organs, evolved to handle specific adaptive problems.
- What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
- 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.
- Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
- Wwb site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.
- 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.
- Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
- Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
- Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows.
- 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.
- Essay presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Psychology. Features links to related sites.
- Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
- 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?
- 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
- A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein.
- Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
- The human species in ecological perspective. A useful collection of links.
- NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.
- Video interviews with Chris Frith, Karl Grammer, John Casti and many others.
- A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
- Article on 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters'.
- Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in in science and academia.
- A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?
- Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions.
- NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.
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