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You've Got a Lot to Answer For, Charlie Darwin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/jul/13/evolution.psychology

Is psychology frozen in the Pleistocene era? Hilary and Steven Rose are sure it must have evolved since then.

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Why we're all getting brighter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/apr/22/anthonybrowne.theobserver

Dumbing down? Don't believe it. Scientists have proved we are smarter now than ever before, largely because we watch TV, surf the net, and spend hours chatting to friends.

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Why elephants don't forget

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1285532.stm

A study of African elephants reveals that dominant females build up a social memory as they get older, helping the herd to survive.

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What if Human Nature Is Historical

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper61.html

This essay moves from pure ideology about changing human nature to using biofeedback as a transitional topic to spelling out the desiderata for treating human nature as a historical project.

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To Love, Honour and Deceive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1296607.stm

Long-term relationships are fundamentally dishonest. And it's all women's fault, new research suggests.

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The Sweet Smell of the Immune System

http://www.nature.com/news/1998/010308/full/news010308-10.html

Manfred Milinski and Claus Wedekind find evidence for the hypothesis that "perfumes are selected to amplify in some way body odors that reveal a person's immunogenetics".

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The Naturalization of Value Systems in the Human Sciences

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper45.html

This essay first appeared as an Open University Course Unit for 'Science and Belief: from Darwin to Einstein', Block VI: Problems in the Biological and Human Sciences. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1981, pp. 63-110.

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The Meanings of Darwinism: Then and Now?

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap124.html

Charles Darwin grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and attended Shrewsbury School for seven years. The school held a Millennium Conference on 'Darwinism and Ethics for the Next Millennium' on 16 October 1999. Papers were given by Mary Midgley, Matt Ridley, Colin Tudge and Robert M. Young.

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The Human Limits of Nature

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper43.html

'The Limits of Human Nature' was the title of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts winter lecture series for 1971-72. The distinguished group of contributors, included Alan Ryan, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, Raymond Williams and John Maynard Smith. This contribution was published in J. Benthall, ed., 'The Limits of Human Nature' (Allen Lane, 1973), pp. 235-74.

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The Genetic Archaeology of Race

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200104/olson

The study of human genetic variation has become the most contentious area in modern science. A detailed article by Steve Olson.

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The Functions of the Brain: Gall to Ferrier (1808-1886)

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/func.html

An online paper on mind, brain, and adaptation in the nineteenth century. It was published in Isis 59: 251-68, 1968.

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The Evolutionary Manifesto

http://www.evolutionarymanifesto.com/man.pdf

This paper by John Stewart uses an evolutionary worldview to derive an ethical system that will require humanity to develop the psychological capacity to transcend the dictates of our biological and cultural past.

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The Evolution of Ethics

http://www.evolutionaryethics.com/

A theory concerning the integration of ethics and science using cybernetic theory as a logical foundation.

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The Development of Herbert Spencer's Concept of Evolution

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/spencer.html

A paper delivered to the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw, August 1965 and published in Actes du Xle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 273-78.

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The Darwin Debate

http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper83.html

This essay appeared in Marxism Today 26 (no.4), April 1982, pp. 20-22.

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The adaptive nature of the human neurocognitive architecture: An alternative model

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/19/11290

The model of the human neurocognitive architecture proposed by evolutionary psychologists is based on the presumption that the demands of hunter-gatherer life generated a vast array of cognitive adaptations. Here we present an alternative model.

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Swanson et al.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/5/2509

A new study by Willie J. Swanson and colleagues provides evidence of sperm competition and sexual conflict.

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Stone Age Bosses Aren't all That Bad

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2001/jan/14/workandcareers.madeleinebunting

Applied to business, as Nigel Nicholson does in his book Managing the Human Animal, evolutionary psychology suggests that most organizational practice runs directly against the grain of human programming.

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Steven Pinker: The Mind Reader

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1999/nov/06/1

Article by Ed Douglas on the evolutionary psychologist with a popular touch and a mission to explain how the brain works.

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Sport and genetics

http://www.medsci.org/archives/athleticgene.html

Stephen Jay Gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes.

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Sociobiology Sanitized: The Evolutionary Psychology and Genic Selectionism Debates

http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/dusek.html

Socio-political overview of the circumstances leading to the development of Evolutionary Psychology as distinct from Sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This web page is associated with the Science-as-Culture mailing list and journal.

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