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Tag: Genetics

November 19, 2021February 2, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Blueprint – How DNA Makes Us Who We Are” by Robert Plomin

October 15, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Holistic Darwinism” by Peter A. Corning

October 11, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” by Richard Wrangham

July 20, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature” by Geoffrey Miller

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population” by many

July 14, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Measuring Selection in Contemporary Human Populations” by many

July 12, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution” by Bowles and Gintis

July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Who We Are and How We Got Here” by David Reich

July 6, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Dynamics of Ancient Empires” by Morris and Scheidel

July 1, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” by Steven Pinker

June 17, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” by Nicholas Wade

April 29, 2021May 7, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor

January 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Migrants: Ancient Migrations in Global Perspective” by Peter Bellwood

May 14, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman

May 12, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy

May 9, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” by Cochran and Harpending

April 29, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark

April 28, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Before the Dawn: Discovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade

April 13, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution…” by Peter Corning

April 9, 2020April 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Meta-analysis of … twin studies” by many

March 3, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution” by Nick Lane

February 26, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Principles of Social Evolution” by Andrew Bourke

January 31, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution” by Richerson and Boyd

January 2, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Secret of Our Success” by Joseph Henrich

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