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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,045 ratings — published 1994
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,641 ratings — published 2014
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,407 ratings — published 2002
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,137 ratings — published 1994
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,097 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 — 2,778 ratings — published 2000
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,840 ratings — published 2010
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,158 ratings — published 1997
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.38 — 32,596 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 — 17,364 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 — 263 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 — 4,208 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 — 1,615 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 — 27,136 ratings — published 2017
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,592 ratings — published 1994
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,494 ratings — published 2011
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,981 ratings — published 2012
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,005 ratings — published 1996
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,371 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 — 1,885 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 — 29,756 ratings — published 2010
The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.25 — 111 ratings — published 2005
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,695 ratings — published 2018
On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,637 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 3.70 — 755 ratings — published 2011
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 196 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 — 1,045 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 3.94 — 2,434 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 — 972 ratings — published 2005
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by (shelved 13 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 868 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 — 4,430 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 — 349 ratings — published 2000
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.17 — 684 ratings — published 1996
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,973 ratings — published 2006
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,487 ratings — published 2019
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,102 ratings — published 1999
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,136 ratings — published 2009
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,453 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 — 17,063 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 — 1,967 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 4.20 — 1,069 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 — 2,228 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 — 8,542 ratings — published 2017
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 974 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 — 28,764 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 — 673 ratings — published 2011
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,819 ratings — published
A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.47 — 235 ratings — published 2000
Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as evolutionary-psychology)
avg rating 3.76 — 82 ratings — published 2005
“Violence is a social and political problem, not just a biological and psychological one. Nonetheless, the phenomena we call ‘social’ and ‘political’ are not external happenings that mysteriously affect human affairs… they are shared understandings among individuals at a given time and place.”
― The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
― The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“The human brain is bigger on the inside than the outside.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace











