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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,073 ratings — published 1994
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,654 ratings — published 2014
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,508 ratings — published 2002
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,178 ratings — published 1994
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,338 ratings — published 1976
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,787 ratings — published 2000
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,953 ratings — published 2010
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,246 ratings — published 1997
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,111 ratings — published 2017
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,398 ratings — published 1993
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.19 — 264 ratings — published 1992
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,216 ratings — published 1997
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - From Adventure to Revenge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,625 ratings — published 2009
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Audiobook)
by (shelved 19 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.02 — 27,444 ratings — published 2017
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,653 ratings — published 1994
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,811 ratings — published 2011
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,669 ratings — published 2012
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,015 ratings — published 1996
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,372 ratings — published 2009
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,889 ratings — published 2006
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,844 ratings — published 2010
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,723 ratings — published 2018
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.25 — 111 ratings — published 2005
On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,653 ratings — published 1978
Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.69 — 760 ratings — published 2011
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 198 ratings — published 2002
When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,058 ratings — published 2021
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,456 ratings — published 2019
A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.22 — 90 ratings — published 2002
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.65 — 979 ratings — published 2005
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.96 — 870 ratings — published 2010
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,440 ratings — published 2005
The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 350 ratings — published 2000
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.17 — 690 ratings — published 1996
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,983 ratings — published 2006
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,493 ratings — published 2019
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,105 ratings — published 1999
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,147 ratings — published 2009
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,460 ratings — published 2001
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,114 ratings — published 1995
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,979 ratings — published 2018
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,079 ratings — published 2019
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,247 ratings — published 2015
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,625 ratings — published 2017
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 981 ratings — published 1996
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,864 ratings — published 1991
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.56 — 676 ratings — published 2011
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,826 ratings — published
A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.46 — 236 ratings — published 2000
Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 83 ratings — published 2005
“The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts — the punch-line…Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it’s inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature’s way of signaling that "it’s a false alarm." Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don’t waste your precious resources on this situation; it’s a false alarm. Laughter is nature’s OK signal.”
― A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
― A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
“If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.”
― Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
― Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
