To promote the development of new courses related to human behavior and evolution, as well as  to encourage resource sharing and collaboration between instructors, below are some relevant teaching materials (or, links to materials). 

If you are interested in starting an interdisciplinary Evolutionary Studies Program (EvolS) at your university, see the EvolS program at Binghamton University, and, Starting Your Own EvolS Program at your university, by David Sloan Wilson.

Please support this collaborative effort by sharing your instructional materials with others. Please email materials or web links for inclusion on this page to Dr. Michael Mills at:  memills@gmail.com.

Also, consider video recording your lectures/presentations along with your PowerPoint presentations with Apreso or Visual Communicator.  Allows your students and colleagues view your presentation via the web.  See example streaming videos created with these products at the Anystream  (Apreso) and Serious Magic (Visual Communicator) company websites.

Teaching resources are organized into the following sections (click on a topic to go to that section).

CONTENTS:

COURSE SYLLABI

Animal Behavior Courses

Geoffrey Miller, Animal Communication

Anthropology Courses

Pascal Boyer, Cognition and Culture

Elizabeth Cashdan, Evolution of Human Nature

Frank Marlow, Evolution of Human Sexuality: Research Seminar /  Human Behavioral Ecology  / Behavioral Biology Seminar / Behavioral Ecology / The Evolution of Human Parenting and Mating Strategies

John Patton, Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature

Business / Marketing Courses

Geoffrey Miller, Marketing, Advertising and Human Nature  /  Products and Preferences: The Evolutionary Psychology of Consumer Behavior

Biology Courses

Economics Courses    

       Herbert Gintis -- Lecture notes regarding evolutionary economics and game theory

Interdisciplinary Courses

Michael Gregory, The Darwinian Revolution

Political Science Courses

See listing of syllabi at the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

Psychology Courses

Alice Andrews, Psychology of Women,  General Psychology,
   Seminar in Psychology: Love & Sex

Paul Andrews and Geoffrey Miller, Human Emotions

Pascal Boyer, Contemporary Topics in Cognitive Development

Charles Crawford,  Evolution and Social Behavior / Evolutionary Psychology

Barry X. Friedman,  Evolutionary Psychology / Independent Readings (uses Barret, Dunbar, & Lycett’s Human Evolutionary Psychology) /  Psychology and Life (uses Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts, by Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan)

David C. Geary,   Evolution of Human Sex Differences / Psychology of Development

Glenn Geher, Evolutionary Psychology

Paul Kenyon, Evolutionary Psychology  Graphics-rich study and online learning materials

Daniel Krupp, Evolutionary Psychology

Lee Kirkpatrick, Evolutionary Psychology

Francisco Gil-White, Biocultural Psychology

Andy Lock, Human Nature, Learning, and the Mind

Kevin MacDonald,  Human Sociobiology

Frank McAndrew, Evolution and Human Behavior   Also see his teaching slides.

Geoffrey Miller, Social Psychology and Evolution / Social Psychology / Mate Choice  / Evolution, Psychopathology, and Health Psychology  / Evolution, Brain, and Behavior: Evolutionary Psychology / Social Interaction / Psychology of Human Sexuality / Behavioral Genetics /
Intelligence and Creativity / Styles of Scientific Debate / Personality & Personality Disorders

Michael Mills, Sex Differences / Evolutionary Psychology

Nick Neave,  Evolutionary Psychology  /  Biological Bases of Behavior / Hormones and Behavior /

Stephen Pinker (MIT OpenCourseware),  Introduction to Psychology / Cognitive and Behavioral Genetics

Jim Roney, Evolutionary Social Psychology

Suzy Scherf, Introduction to Psychology (also see her class website)

Todd Shackelford, Evolutionary Psychology (2002 syllabus)

 

Sociology Courses

Rebecca Frerichs,  Sociology and Biology

TEXTBOOKS:

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology by David M. Buss (Editor) (2005)

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

Evolutionary Psychology (2nd Edition),
by Steven J. C. Gaulin, Donald H. McBurney (2003).
(Note: This book can be used as a text for a General Psychology course).

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, 2^nd Ed.
by David M. Buss (2003)

Psychology and Evolution: The Origins of Mind by Bruce Bridgeman (2003)

The Functional Mind: Readings in Evolutionary Psychology,
by Douglas T. Kenrick and Carol L. Luce (2003)

Evolutionary Psychology: The Science of Human Behavior and Evolution
by Matthew J. Rossano (2002)

Evolutionary Psychology: The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior by Jack A. Palmer, Linda K. Palmer (2001)

Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature by Timothy H. Goldsmith, William F. Zimmerman (2001)  Also see their publisher's page for more info, or for an examination copy.

Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction by Christopher Badcock (2000)

Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on Human Nature by John Cartwright (2000)

Adaptation and Human Behavior : An Anthropolotical Perspective by Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, William Irons (Editors) (2000)

Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach by J.C. Steven Gaulin, Donald McBurney (2000)

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans (2000)

Why Sex Matters; A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior  by Bobbi S. Low (2000)

Sex Differences: Development and Evolutionary Strategies by Linda R. Mealey (2000)

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind by David M. Buss (1999)

How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd, Joan B. Silk (1997)

Human Nature: A Critical Reader by Laura L. Betzig (Editor)  (1996)

Evolutionary Social Psychology by Jeffry A. Simpson (Editor), Douglas Kenrick (Editor) (1996)

Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology by David F. Bjorklund, Anthony D. Pellegrini (2001)

Biology, Society, and Behavior: The Development ofSex Differences in Cognition by Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi, Richard De Lisi (Editors), (2001)

Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology: Innovative Research Strategies by Harmon R. Holcomb (Editor) (2001)

Also, see the list of books in the HBES books section.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS and FILES

     The following files are accessible by password by HBES Members only.  To access
      these files please click here.

GRAPHICS FILES (to download a graphics file, right click on it, and click "download")

Paul Kenyon, Evolutionary Psychology  Graphics-rich study and online learning materials.  Also, see his Evolutionary Psychobiology summary, as well as his SALMON (Study and Learning Materials Online) website.

Frank McAndrew, Evolution and Human Behavior  course teaching slides.

Graphics from Mark Ridley's book Evolution are available for download via an image gallery or in zipped files for each book chapter.   See more resources, including tutorials, video clips, etc.

VIDEOS

If you teach a course you would like listed here, contact Dr. Michael E. Mills at memills@gmail.com