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12 Listings - DR (10/10)12 Listings - DR (10/10) No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the Genius Sperm-bank Donors Turn Out? - http://slate.com/id/103402/
The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine.
278 Listings - DR (8/10)278 Listings - DR (8/10) The Descent of Man - http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/
Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
On Target - DR (7/10)On Target - DR (7/10) Evolution's Voyage - http://www.evoyage.com/
Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
1,256 Listings - DR (7/10)1,256 Listings - DR (7/10) Inside the Animal Mind - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animalmind/
A superb website on animal intelligence.
294 Listings - DR (6/10)294 Listings - DR (6/10) In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/outpost/resource_lesson1.html
Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
401 Listings - DR (6/10)401 Listings - DR (6/10) Nature/Nurture Debate - http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1010508
Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
401 Listings - DR (6/10)401 Listings - DR (6/10) NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior - http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1071573
Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."
401 Listings - DR (6/10)401 Listings - DR (6/10) Pinker on 'The Language Instinct' - http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1107515
NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.
401 Listings - DR (6/10)401 Listings - DR (6/10) Language Gene - http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1148343
NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) Unlocking the brain's potential - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1211299.stm
Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) Secrets of the brain - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/837632.stm
The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) When babies 'see' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1037328.stm
Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) What makes a good rumour? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/934357.stm
A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) The original 'rock music' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/920305.stm
Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/844217.stm
British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.ˇ=
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) Identifying the accident prone - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1100347.stm
Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
5,174 Listings - DR (6/10)5,174 Listings - DR (6/10) Women's Choice of Men Goes in Cycles - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/376321.stm
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.
370 Listings - DR (6/10)370 Listings - DR (6/10) Film Archive of Human Ethology - http://erl.orn.mpg.de/~fshuman/en/eindex.html
Videos and photography of people comparing different cultures.
7 Listings - DR (6/10)7 Listings - DR (6/10) Evolutionary Psychology - http://www.behavior.net/column/brody/
Brief introduction to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Brain Development - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Feb/hour1_020996.html
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.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) The Undiscovered Mind - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/Sep/hour2_092499.html
A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Origins of Language - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Sep/hour2_090895.html
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.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Flight from Science and Reason - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Jul/hour2_072895.html
Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in science and academia.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) The Role of the Skeptic - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Jun/hour2_062196.html
A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) The Genetics of Complex Traits - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/Feb/hour2_021497.html
Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Human Origins Update - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/May/hour1_051096.html
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.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Human Genome Project - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jun/hour1_060900.html
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.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Synaesthesia - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jul/hour2_072800.html
Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Oct/hour2_102700.html
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?
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) The Science of Beauty - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Mar/hour2_030395.html
Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Stress and Disease - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour1_122295.html
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Human Culture, Human Mind - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour2_121595.html
A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein.
33 Listings - DR (6/10)33 Listings - DR (6/10) Monkey Math - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jan/hour1_010700.html
What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
873 Listings - DR (6/10)873 Listings - DR (6/10) Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition - http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/research.html
Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.
On Target - DR (6/10)On Target - DR (6/10) Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man - http://www.darwinwars.com/index.html
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.
7 Listings - DR (6/10)7 Listings - DR (6/10) The Future of Human Evolution - http://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.html
Paper by nick Bostrom exploring some dystopian scenarios where evolutionary developments, while continuing to produce complex and intelligent forms of organization, lead to the gradual elimination of all forms of being that we care about.
5 Listings - DR (6/10)5 Listings - DR (6/10) The Origin of Language - UsingEnglish.com - http://www.usingenglish.com/speaking-out/universal-grammar.html
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.
6 Listings - DR (5/10)6 Listings - DR (5/10) So you think you're logical? - http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/logic_task.htm
An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Richard Wrangham - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wrangham/
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.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Margaret Hagen - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Orlando Patterson - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/patterson/
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 as special adviser for social policy and development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley during the 1970's, was on the faculty at the London School of Economics, and has published three novels.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Sue Savage-Rumbaugh - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/
Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Frans de Waal - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/waal/
An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Jared Diamond - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) The Dance of Consciousness - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/freeman/
In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action.
10 Listings - DR (5/10)10 Listings - DR (5/10) Frank Sulloway - http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/sulloway/
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'.
On Target - DR (5/10)On Target - DR (5/10) The Bio-Rational Institute - http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/
Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
202 Listings - DR (5/10)202 Listings - DR (5/10) Evolutionary psychology - http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/evpsy.htm
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.
5 Listings - DR (4/10)5 Listings - DR (4/10) Chimpanzees and Romans: Why Animals and Humans Make War - http://www.howardbloom.net/chimpanzees_and_romans.htm
Paleopsychologist/mass-behavior specialist Howard Bloom explains the animal instincts that drove the ancient Greeks and Romans to make war.
On Target - DR (4/10)On Target - DR (4/10) The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy - http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/
Web site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.
59 Listings - DR (4/10)59 Listings - DR (4/10) Evolutionary Psychology: An Emerging Integrative Perspective within the Science and Practice of Psychology - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/ep.html
An article on the theory and implications of this theory by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair.
59 Listings - DR (4/10)59 Listings - DR (4/10) Turning the Tables on the Tabula Rasa By David P. Barash - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/pinker.html
A detailed commentary on The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker.
59 Listings - DR (4/10)59 Listings - DR (4/10) The Imagined World Made Real - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/plotkin.html
Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture.
59 Listings - DR (4/10)59 Listings - DR (4/10) Sex, Drugs, and Cults - http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html
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.
246 Listings - DR (4/10)246 Listings - DR (4/10) Toward a Revised Evolutionary Adaptationist Analysis of Depression: The Social Navigation Hypothesis - http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/Watson_Andrews2002.pdf
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.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA - http://www.humancondition.info/
Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.
1,727 Listings - DR (3/10)1,727 Listings - DR (3/10) Daniel J. Kruger: Evolutionary Psychology - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/
This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002.
1,727 Listings - DR (3/10)1,727 Listings - DR (3/10) Evolutionary Psychology - http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/evol-psych.html
Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.
1,727 Listings - DR (3/10)1,727 Listings - DR (3/10) The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program - http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/ehap/nesseflier.htm
Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.
303 Listings - DR (3/10)303 Listings - DR (3/10) The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ - http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html
Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
303 Listings - DR (3/10)303 Listings - DR (3/10) Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby - http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Genetics, Ethics and Theology - http://www.meta-library.net/media/gene-body.html
Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
On Target - DR (3/10)On Target - DR (3/10) Koen DePryck - http://www.kdpgroup.com/
Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
315 Listings - DR (2/10)315 Listings - DR (2/10) Psychology, Culture, and Evolution - http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
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.
99 Listings - DR (1/10)99 Listings - DR (1/10) Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution - http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/hbook/start.htm
Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

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