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The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,944 ratings — published 1976
On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,690 ratings — published 1978
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,797 ratings — published 1975
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,184 ratings — published 1994
Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 77 ratings — published 2000
The Social Conquest of Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,375 ratings — published 2012
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,049 ratings — published 1998
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published 1981
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,476 ratings — published 2005
The Woman That Never Evolved (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 249 ratings — published 1981
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,078 ratings — published 1991
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.96 — 516 ratings — published 2004
Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.69 — 780 ratings — published 2011
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.01 — 654 ratings — published 1981
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,590 ratings — published 1994
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.37 — 34,440 ratings — published 2017
Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.09 — 277 ratings — published 1994
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,457 ratings — published 2019
Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology And Philosophy Series)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 659 ratings — published 2005
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,307 ratings — published 2022
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,686 ratings — published 2009
Science Wars: Politics, Gender, and Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2013
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.95 — 875 ratings — published 2010
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,092 ratings — published 2013
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,391 ratings — published 1997
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 213 ratings — published 1999
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,929 ratings — published 2017
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,173 ratings — published 2021
When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,080 ratings — published 2021
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 387 ratings — published 1998
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.12 — 355 ratings — published 1984
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.65 — 295 ratings — published 2012
Genetics and education (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 1972
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,119 ratings — published 2019
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.03 — 903 ratings — published 2020
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,874 ratings — published 2019
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,227 ratings — published 1997
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.88 — 108 ratings — published 1998
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,780 ratings — published 2013
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,436 ratings — published 1984
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.07 — 276 ratings — published 2018
A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 814 ratings — published 2018
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,002 ratings — published 2010
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,947 ratings — published 1995
The Origins of Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,718 ratings — published 2017
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,004 ratings — published 1996
ADAPTED MIND: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 266 ratings — published 1992
Homicide: Foundations of Human Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.19 — 127 ratings — published 1988
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,375 ratings — published 2009
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sociobiology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,805 ratings — published 2000
“Culture wars' are really undeclared 'gene wars”
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“I have sought to prove ... that the code of enmity is a necessary part of the machinery of evolution. He who feels generous towards his enemy, and more especially if he feels forgiveness towards him, has in reality abandoned the code of enmity and so has given up his place in the turmoil of evolutionary competition. Hence the benign feeling of perfect peace that descends on him.”
― A New Theory of Human Evolution
― A New Theory of Human Evolution
