The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ
Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/evpsychfaq.html
Psychology, Culture, and Evolution
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.
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
Jack Parsons Home Page
Comprehensive coverage of the scholarly work of the writer, lecturer, & consultant on population, development, & related social, political, & ethical problems.
http://jackparsons.members.beeb.net/
The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA
Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.
http://www.fha.asn.au/
Human Genome Project
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.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jun/hour1_060900.html
Human Origins Update
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.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/May/hour1_051096.html
Evolution's Voyage
Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
http://www.evoyage.com/
The Genetics of Complex Traits
Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1997/Feb/hour2_021497.html
Flight from Science and Reason
Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in in science and academia.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Jul/hour2_072895.html
The Role of the Skeptic
A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Jun/hour2_062196.html
Film Archive of Human Ethology
Videos and photography of people comparing different cultures.
http://erl.ornithol.mpg.de/~fshuman/EngHomep/eindex.html
Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses
Replicators are the fundamental units of any process of natural selection. They were first defined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as any entities of which copies are made. The concept of replicators has diverse applications in a variety of area
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/home.shtml
Mindship
Video interviews with Chris Frith, Karl Grammer, John Casti and many others.
http://www.tvropa.com/TVropa1.2/science/mindship_menu.asp?CatName=&PageID=1&From=1910
Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures
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?
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Oct/hour2_102700.html
Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences
This article attempts to describe evolutionary psychology and the challenge it poses to traditional social science, and then discusses opportunities evolutionary psychology opens for Christian apologetics.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/Evolution/PSCF9-98Zimmer.html
Evolutionary Psychology: An Elegant Solution
Evolutionary Psychology is a relatively new approach that treats the human mind as a product of evolution. According to EP, the human mind consists of mental modules that, like the body's organs, evolved to handle specific adaptive problems.
http://www.elsol.org/f_ep.html
Synaesthesia
Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jul/hour2_072800.html
Monkey Math
What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jan/hour1_010700.html
Inside the Animal Mind
A superb website on animal intelligence.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animalmind/
Koen DePryck
Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
http://www.KDPgroup.com/
Stress and Disease
Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour1_122295.html
Human Culture, Human Mind
A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Dec/hour2_121595.html
Origins of Language
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.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Sep/hour2_090895.html
The Science of Beauty
Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Mar/hour2_030395.html
Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man
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.
http://www.darwinwars.com/
Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition
Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/research.html
The Undiscovered Mind
A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/Sep/hour2_092499.html
Brain Development
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.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1996/Feb/hour1_020996.html
Genetics, Ethics and Theology
Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
http://www.meta-library.net/media/gene-body.html
Matt Ridley: The Evolution of a Darwinian
Article on 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters'.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20000306_85142.asp
Sociobiology and the Meaning of Life
Essay presents an overview of the field of Evolutionary Psychology. Features links to related sites.
http://www.geocities.com/evo_psych
The Dance of Consciousness
In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J. Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/freeman/
Intraspecific Exploitative Mimicry in Humans
Humans have evolved to rely very heavily on cooperation with conspecifics. This web page presents the best possible explanation for this complex phenomenon.
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/hagen/dd.html
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/savage-rumbaugh/
Frans de Waal
An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/waal/
Jared Diamond
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/
Margaret Hagen
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/
Orlando 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
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/patterson/
Frank 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'.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/sulloway/
Evolutionary psychology
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.
http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/evpsy.htm
MFTSource Theory: Evolutionary Psychology
MFTSource.com Theory Page on Evolutionary Psychology organizes useful clinical resources for working from this framework on a variety of issues and diagnoses.
http://mftsource.com/theory.evpsych.htm
Richard 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.
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wrangham/
The human species: our evolution and future
The human species in ecological perspective. A useful collection of links.
http://www.bh.rmit.edu.au/abbt/subject/cc014/evolutionlinks.html
World From Within
Explores the pathology of modern human language and social-cultural institutions.
http://www.saivo.com/
The Bio-Rational Institute
Articles, references and information about evolutionary influences on human experience.
http://www.biorationalinstitute.com/
The Origin of Language - UsingEnglish.com
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.
http://www.usingenglish.com/speaking-out/universal-grammar.html
Evolutionary analysis of depression.
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.
http://biology.unm.edu/biology/pwatson/public_html/Watson_Andrews2002.pdf
The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy
Wwb site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.
http://www.thegreatdebate.org.uk/
Sex, Drugs, and Cults
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.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html
The Imagined World Made Real
Tom Dickins looks at Henry Plotkin's view on the natural science of culture.
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/plotkin.html
Unlocking the brain's potential
Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1211299.stm
What makes a good rumour?
A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/934357.stm
When babies 'see'
Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1037328.stm
The original 'rock music'
Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/920305.stm
Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence
British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.ˇ=
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/844217.stm
Secrets of the brain
The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/837632.stm
Identifying the accident prone
Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1100347.stm
Daniel J. Kruger: Evolutionary Psychology
This Research Fellow at the University of Michigan provides an online version of his work "What is Evolutionary Psychology?" published 2002.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/
Chimpanzees and Romans: Why Animals and Humans Make War
Paleopsychologist/mass-behavior specialist Howard Bloom explains the animal instincts that drove the ancient Greeks and Romans to make war.
http://www.howardbloom.net/chimpanzees_and_romans.htm
The Evolution and Human Adaptation Program
Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine.
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/ehap/nesseflier.htm
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Written by Charles R. Peters of Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/hbook/start.htm
Nature/Nurture Debate
Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1010508
NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior
Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1071573
Language Gene
NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1148343
Pinker on 'The Language Instinct'
NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1107515
Evolutionary Psychology
Provides a concise definition of the field with links to related topics.
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/evol-psych.html