Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations – that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
The Selfish Gene
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
How the Mind Works
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Gad Saad
Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.
Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

Raydrich Rocha
The duality that is inherent to us… A division of wills, of desires, which causes us to be inhabited by an internal struggle between various entities... What makes us a single being? If we are the synergy of the trillions of cells that inhabit us, which have evolved with the history of the Earth and our species through their adaptations, and that are in constant replacement and renewal throughout an individual's life. ...more
Raydrich Rocha

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