A Discussion with Matt Ridley
Audio interview - question and answer session. |
A finger on sexuality
Finger length may be an indication of sexual orientation, a study by Marc Breedlove has shown. |
A tutorial on evolutionary psychology
PDF by Edward Hagen of UCSB. |
Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned
Book review of Alas Poor Darwin, by Robert Kurzban. Assesses five charges against evolutionary psychology: genetic determinism, panadaptationism, unfalsifiable hypotheses, proximate explanations, and ideological bias. |
An Essay on Evolutionary Psychology
An interesting summary of some of the issues. |
Ancient Cannibalism
A report in Nature may settle once and for all a contentious debate in the world of anthropology. |
Andrew Brown on Evolutionary Psychology Online
A review in Salon. |
Animal Behavior, Comparative Psychology and Ethology Resources
Resources on animal behavior, comparative psychology and ethology; this class of behavioral adaptations are known as instincts that typically evolve over many generations. |
Anthroglobe: Evolutionary Psychology
A directory of annotated links for understanding the evolution of human cognitive adaptations. |
Baboon key to human stress
The stresses and strains that afflict humans are evident in baboon societies - as are the long-term health effects. |
BBC Evolution Weekend: the Darwin Debate
Melvyn Bragg chaired a debate on the significance of evolution theory on human society. |
Beauty Worlds: The Culture of Beauty
All about beauty in nature and cultures past and present with informative articles on body image, fashion, cosmetics, eating disorders and much more from the viewpoints of evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis. |
Behavioural genetics to get public scrutiny
The public is to be asked how scientists should investigate the possible link between genes and behaviour. |
Bio-Feminism Web Resources
A collection of resources compiled by Time. |
Biology of Aggression
An audio discussion of the role of genes in aggression. |
Biology of Language
Steven Pinker and Myrna Gopnik in a Science Friday audio discussion. |
Biopsy
This site is maintained by Simon Gadbois, lecturer at Acadia and Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, and includes links and resources for animal behaviour, behavioural endocrinology, evolutionary psychology and biological psychology. |
Boxmind
Superb online video lecture series featuring Steven Pinker, John Searle, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and others. |
Brain Development
Marion Diamond and others on how genes and the environment work together to shape the young developing brain. |
Brain region for understanding minds
Researchers in Canada identify the part of the brain that helps us understand the thoughts of other people. |
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. |
Cloning humans: Can it really be done?
Dr David Whitehouse, answers some questions about cloning and whether the technology can be made to work in humans. |
Consciousness
Radio debate between Dennett, Chalmers, and Koch. |
Creationism and Evolutionary Psychology
What is the Biblical perspective? A creationist broadcast on the evolutionary influence in psychology. |
Decision Making
A discussion on the psychology of making the right call. |
Did the caveman teach us to queue?
The cult of evolutionary psychology has received another boost with the theory we were born to queue. But can caveman behaviour really explain everything we do? |
Doubting Thomas, "The Wedge"
The Wedge: A Christian Plan to Overthrow Modern Science? |
Dr. Leda Cosmides and Dr. John Tooby, UCSB
Has Natural Selection Shaped How Humans Reason? An audio lecture. |
Earliest evidence of art found
Archaeologists uncover evidence that early humans used paint for aesthetic purposes far earlier than previously thought. |
Esther Sternberg
Audio interview on NPR about the book The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions in which Sternberg looks at how researchers have uncovered the connection between mind and body. |
Ethology and Evolution on the Web
A collection of resources for Ethology, Evolutionary Psychology, General Psychology, Cultural Evolution and Memetics. Includes links to research institutions, electronic journals, and professional societies. |
Eugenie Scott on Creationism
Kansas State University present the Landon Lecture series both in RealAudio format and in transcripts. |
Evolution and Cognition
An interdisciplinary forum devoted to all aspects of research on cognition in animals and humans. |
Evolution and Higher Cognition
A fascinating archive of papers from theorists at the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology. |
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 |
Evolution and Psychology
Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism linking Directed Mutation to the Baldwin Effect. How Psychology colours perception of natural realities. |
Evolutionary analysis of depression.
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. |
Evolutionary cybernetics
A guide. |
Evolutionary explanations of human behaviour
A quiz. |
Evolutionary Psychology
An helpful outline of a course on evolutionary psychology. |
Evolutionary Psychology
Papers on Evolutionary Psychology. |
Evolutionary Psychology
The study of how our minds have evolved, and the traces left by that evolution. |
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. |
Evolutionary Psychology at Cogweb
A very detailed, searchable site. |
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. |
Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field. |
Evolutionary psychology: An emerging integrative perspective within the science and practice of psychology by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is an emerging integrative approach to the study of Human Nature, founded upon evolutionary biological theory and cognitive science. This article by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair evaluates the theoretical foundations and implic |
Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior
This text weaves evolutionary explanations into a framework that incorporates ontogeny and physiological mechanisms, as well as immediate causation. It reviews how evolutionary psychology explains and predicts human behavior in contexts such as mate sele |
Evolutionary Theory
Entry at the Prinicpia Cybernetica. |
Film Archive of Human Ethology
Archives of Films, Videos and photographies on the Ethology of Humans comparing different cultures |
Flight from Science and Reason
Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in in science and academia. |
Francis Fukyama
Ray Suarez in a conversation with the controversial author and political scientist. |
Frans de Waal
An audio interview with the primatologist and author. |
Genetics, Ethics and Theology
Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology. |
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Edited by ANDREW LOCK Massey University, Palmerston |
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. |
Human evolution
Humans and chimpanzees are more closely related to each other than either are to gorillas. |
Human Genome Project
Who owns the map of the human body? |
Human Nature Review
Articles and book reviews on the nature of human nature, with good coverage of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. |
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. |
Human-Nature.com
"Writings and discussions on history, philosophy and social studies in the human sciences: Darwinian scholarship; evolutionary psychology, sociobiology and debates about them; cognitive psychology; neuropsychology, modularity; narrative approaches; |
Identifying the accident prone
Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers. |
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. |
Information on the author / scientist Richard Dawkins and his books.
An unofficial site on the author / scientist Richard Dawkins and his books. |
Inside the Animal Mind
A superb website on animal intelligence. |
Intraspecific Exploitative Mimicry in Humans
Humans have evolved to rely very heavily on cooperation with conspecifics. This web page presents the best possible explanation for this complex phenomenon. |
Jack Parsons Home Page
Comprehensive coverage of the scholarly work of the writer, lecturer, & consultant on population, development, & related social, political, & ethical problems. |
Jared Diamond
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer. |
Koen DePryck
Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items. |
Language gene
NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language. |
Learning and Dreaming
A Science Friday audio discussion on the science of dreaming featuring Robert Stickgold and Matthew Wilson. |
Looking at chimpanzees ...
Information about research on the Arnhem Zoo chimpanzee colony, the Family of Chimps and the most powerful chimpanzee of the Netherlands by Otto Adang. |
Managing the Tribe
An evolutionary perspective on mental illness, discussing depression and other disorders as part of the human design. |
Margaret Hagen
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception. |
MFTSource Theory: Evolutionary Psychology
MFTSource.com Theory Page on Evolutionary Psychology organizes useful clinical resources for working from this framework on a variety of issues and diagnoses. |
Mindship
Video interviews with Chris Frith, Karl Grammer, John Casti and many others. |
Monkey Math
What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology? |
Nature/Nurture Debate
Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer. |
New neurons
Scientists at Princeton University have produced a research finding that goes counter to long-held wisdom about the brain. They discovered that new neurons are continually being added to the brains of adult monkeys, even to parts of the brain responsible |
No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the genius sperm-bank donors turn out? by David Plotz
The strange story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine. |
Of mice and men
Discussion of genetic determinism. |
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. |
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? |
Pheromones
Pheromone-receptor genes have been detected before in mice, however, the discovery of the V1RL1 gene is the first to be reported in humans. Science Friday investigates. |
Physiological psychology
The award winning SALMON web site which contains support material for courses taught by Dr Paul Kenyon in the Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth , Devon, UK. |
Pinker and the Brain
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the evolutionary origins of language and behavior while keeping his detractors at bay. |
Primate Handedness and Brain Lateralization
Resources compiled by M.K. Holder. |
Psychological Anthropology
An Introduction to Psychological Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Human Mind. |
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. |
Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain
by Calvin and Bickerton. Conversations between a neurobiologist and a linguist cover the issues relating to what enabled structured language to emerge from protolanguage. This may have also enhanced the intelligence and planning skills of early humans. |
Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses
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 are |
Sex on the Brain
A National Public Radio Interview with Deborah Blum. |
Sexual selection and the mind
A talk with Geoffrey Miller at The Edge. |
Stress and Disease
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress. |
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Audio conversations with the noted primatologist. |
Synaesthesia
Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted. |
The Art of Dementia
Are people with artistic ability born or made? |
The Ascent of the Mind
A review of a book by William Calvin. |
The Bio-Rational Institute
Articles, references, books and information about the biological, behavioral, genetic and evolutionary influences on human experience including areas of freedom, mating, health, parenting, and self, with search and email newsletter. |
The biology of humour
Brain scans show that puns and other types of joke are deciphered in different parts of the brain. |
The Dance of Consciousness
In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action. |
The Evolutionary Models in Social Science (EMSS) Web Bibliography
A very useful web bibliography. |
The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ
Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology. |
The Evolutionary Psychology of Beauty
Synthetic beauties automorphed from 10 American females and 10 Japanese with a program developed by us which can create prototypes, analyze skin surfaces, symmetry and the complexity of almost any stimulus. |
The Feeling of What Happens
NPR audio interview with neurologist Antonio Damasio. |
The Genetics of Complex Traits
Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits. |
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. |
The Human Face
John Cleese and Liz Hurley discover some of the mysteries hidden behind the mask of the human face. |
The human species: our evolution and future
The human species in ecological perspective. A useful collection of links. |
The Journal of Mundane Behavior
Radio interview with the founder. |
The Origins of Violence: Is Psychopathy an Adaptation? by Ian Pitchford
Violence has been attributed to many causes including mental illness, brain damage, child abuse, and social deprivation. This article provides a brief overview of some recent work on sociopathy and psychopathy and argues that models of violence, and expl |
The Qualitative Genesis of all Principal Forms of Cognition
The development of all main forms of cognition up to inspiration and creativity. English/Deutsch. |
The Role of the Skeptic
A discussion including Eugenie Scott. |
The Savanna Groves
The Savanna Groves is an online forum set up to accommodate an informal discussion of evolutionary psychology and related topics (such as evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary biology). |
The Science of Beauty
Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty. |
The Science of Sleep
Harvard researchers recently identified a "slumber switch" that tells us when to go to sleep. But why do we even need sleep? A discussion hosted by Science Friday. |
The Undiscovered Mind
A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research. |
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
A useful tutorial on the basics. |
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? |
Will Wilkinson / Tools / Research / Evolutionary Psychology
A short collection of links. |
William Calvin
Audio interview with the theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington. |
World Database of Happiness
A continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam. |
World From Within
Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions. |
Yahoo Groups : Evolutionary-psychology
Discussion group and archive. |
