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Popular Press Overviews  for the Layperson

	Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson (2007)
	Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa (2007)
	Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide by Robin Dunbar, Louise Barrett and John Lycett (2005)

Scholarly Overviews, Reviews, and Textbooks

Missing the Revolution : Darwinism for Social Scientists, by Jerome H. Barkow (2005)

 The Nature vs. Nurture Debate / Nature-Nurture Interactionism  

Gender, Nature, and Nurture,  2nd Ed., by Richard A. Lippa (2005)

Biology / Evolutionary Processes / Behavioral-Cognitive Genetics / Self-Organizing
Systems / Complexity & Chaos 

	Genes in Conflict by Robert Trivers and Austin Burt (2006)
	Future Human Evolution, by John Glad (2006)  -- online book.
	What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline by Ernst Mayr (2004)
	Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan (2004)
	The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins (2004)
	Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution by Peter J. Richerson (2004)
	The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence by David Geary (2004)
	The Case of the Female Orgasm Bias in the Science of Evolution by Elisabeth A. Lloyd (2005)
	The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary Marcus (2003)
	Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll (2005)
	The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill by David Buss (2005)
	Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature by Eric Chaisson (2001)
	Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller (2002)
	The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller (2002)
	The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology by Timothy Shanahan (2004)
	Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life by Hubert P. Yockey (2005)
	The Spirit of the Gene: Humanity’s Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature (Comstock Book) by Reg Morriso
	Speciation by Jerry A. Coyne and Allen H. Orr (2004)
	Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2004)
	The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes by Dean H. Hamer (2004)
	Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles) by Edward J. Larson
	What Makes Biology Unique? Consideration on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline by Ernst Mayr

Animal Behavior

	Our Inner Ape by Frans De Waal (2005)
	The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology by William McGrew (2004)
	The Paradoxical Primate by Colin Talbot (2004)
	The Behavior of Animals: Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution by Johan J. Bolhuis (2005)
	Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, 8th Ed., by John Alcock (2005)
	Orangutans: Wizards of the Rain Forest by Anne E. Russon (2000)
	Animal Bodies Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills by William A. Hillix, and Duane M. Rumbaugh (2003)
	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A love Story…with Wings by Mark Bittner (2004)

The Human Ancestral Environment 

	The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins (2004)
	The Human Story: Our Evolution from Prehistoric Ancestors to Today (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12) by Christopher Sloan (2004)
	After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 B.C. by Steven Mithen (2004)

The Evolutionary Psychology of the Individual 

Overviews

Evolutionary Psychology: An Introduction by Lance Workman and Will Reader

       Consciousness and Pereception          

Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
Consciousness Creeping Up on the Hard Problem by Jeffrey Gray

         

        Developmental Processes

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development by Bruce J. Ellis and David F. Bjorklund 

Theories of Theories of Mind by Peter Carruthers (Editor) and Peter K. Smith (Editor)

Emotion / Motivation

       Emotions: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Psychology) by Keith Oatley

Emotion, Evolution and Rationality by Dylan Evans (Editor) and Pierre Cruse (Editor)

         

Behavior / Reflexes / Conditioning / Behavioral Learning Theory

Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life by Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb

The Spirit of the Gene: Humanity’s Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature (Comstock Book) by Reg Morrison

         Cognition / Intelligence / Creativity 

When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber

Theories of Theories of Mind by Peter Carruthers (Editor) and Peter K. Smith (Editor)

On the Origins of the Mind by David Berlinski (digital edition)

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development
by Bruce J. Ellis and David F. Bjorklund

 Personality / Psychopathology 

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William Catton

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development by Bruce J. Ellis and David F. Bjorklund

The Causes Of Rape: Understanding Individual Differences In Male Propensity For Sexual Aggression (The Law and Public Policy) by Grant T. Harris

Language / Music

The Singing Neanderthal: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen

          Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence Deacon

 The Singing Neanderthal: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen

 Animal Bodies Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills by William A. Hillix, and Duane M. Rumbaugh

          Evolutionary Neuroscience

          Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience by Steven M. Platek, Julian Paul Keenan, Todd K. Shackelford (2006)
        An Evolutionary Psychology of Sleep and Dreams by Patrick McNamara

 

The Sexes: Sexual Selection and Sexually Dimorphic Adaptations

 

Female Infidelity and Paternal Uncertainty, by Steven M. Platek and Todd K. Shackelford (Editors) (2006)

Who's Afraid of Charles Darwin? Debating Feminism and Evolutionary Theory, by Griet Vandermassen (2005)

Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap—and What Women Can Do About It
by Warren Farrell (2005)

Born Gay: the Psychology of Sex Orientation by Glenn Wilson and Qazi Rahman

Women In the Kibbutz by Lionel Tiger

Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture by Paul Nathason and Katherine K. Young

Human Sexualty 2^nd Edition by Simon LeVay (2003)

Gender, Nature, and Nurture by Richard A. Lippa

The Causes Of Rape: Understanding Individual Differences In Male Propensity For Sexual Aggression (The Law and Public Policy) by Grant T. Harris

Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget by Marianne J. Legato

Biological Substrates of Human Sexuality by Janet Shibley Hyde (Editor)

Human Sexuality 2^nd Edition by Simon LeVay

The Nature of Homosexuality : Vindication for Homosexual Activists and the Religious Right by Erik Holland

  

Family and Kin Related Adaptations

On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnity, and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration by Frank Salter

 

  Groups / Sociality  (Non-Kin Related Adaptations)

 

The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War,
by David Livingstone Smith (2007)

Evolution and Social Psychology by Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson,
Douglas T. Kenrick (2006)

King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership by Arnold M. Ludwid

Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies by Joseph Enrich (Editor)

The Dance of Life by Edward T. Hall

Kindness in a Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism by Nigel Barber

The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright

Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning and Social Evolution) by Herbert Gintis (Editor), Samuel Bowles (Editor), Robert T. Boyd (Editor) and Ernst Fehr (Editor)

Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies by Joseph Enrich (Editor)

What Are Old People For?  How Elders Will Save the World by William H. Thomas, M.D.

A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination by Marek Kohn

The Possibility of Progress by Mark Braund

Culture / Memetic Adaptations / Memetic Evolution

        Aesthetics and the Humanities 

Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind And the Novel, by Lisa Zunshine (2006)

      An Explanation of Spiral Dynamics Memes and Vmemes What are they?

 Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan

 Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: A Darwinian Look At Literature by David Barash

 A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination by Marek Kohn

 

          Ethics, Morality, Philosophy, Religion 

          The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired Into Our Genes by Dean H. Hamer

         Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray       

        God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Niall Shanks

 

 

Applied Evolutionary Theory and Research in medicine, psychotherapy, computer programming, artificial intelligence, etc.

Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Themodynamics, and Life,  by Eric D. Schneider, Dorion Sagan

Darwin and International Relations: On Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict by Bradley Thayer

 

Biographies

 

Controversies: Political Correctness, Creationism, etc

 

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World by James Shreeve and Eric Singer

Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross

The Gecko’s Foot: Bio-inspiration, Engineered from Nature by Peter Forbes

Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Back by David Plotz

Animal Bodies Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills by William A. Hillix, and Duane M. Rumbaugh

The Evolution-Creation Struggle by Michael Ruse

Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies and What It Means to Be Human by Joel Garreau

God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Niall Shanks