Tag: Biology
Book Summary: “Holistic Darwinism” by Peter A. Corning
Book Summary: “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle
Book Summary: “Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature” by Geoffrey Miller
Book Summary: “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos” by Eric Chaisson
Article Summary: “Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population” by many
Article Summary: “Measuring Selection in Contemporary Human Populations” by many
Book Summary: “A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution” by Bowles and Gintis
Book Summary: “Who We Are and How We Got Here” by David Reich
Book Summary: “Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” by Steven Pinker
Book Summary: “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” by Nicholas Wade
Book Summary: “Big History and the Future of Humanity” by Fred Spier
Article Summary: “Recent Acceleration of Human Adaptive Evolution” by many
Article Summary: “A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome” by many
Book Summary: “Understanding Human History” by Michael Hart
Book Summary: “Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error… ” by Jim Stanzi
Book Summary: “Scale: The Universal Laws of Life…” by Geoffrey West
Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf
Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman
Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy
Book Summary: “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” by Cochran and Harpending
Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture” by Alex Mesoudi
Article Summary: “Meta-analysis of … twin studies” by many
Article Summary: “The Pace of Cultural Evolution” by Charles Perreault
Book Summary: “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos” by Peter Hoffman
Book Summary: “Revolutions That Made the Earth” by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson
Book Summary: “The Origin and Evolution of Cultures” by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
Book Summary: “Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science” by Peter Watson
Book Summary: “The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution” by Nick Lane
Book Summary: “The Principles of Social Evolution” by Andrew Bourke
Book Summary: “Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History” by Ian Morris
Book Summary: “Ecological-Evolutionary Theory” by Gerhard Lenski
Book Summary: “Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution” by Richerson and Boyd
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