Évolution

Notre histoire ancestrale se dévoile à travers la science de pointe, révélant comment l'ADN, la sélection naturelle et les forces biologiques ont façonné tout, de nos corps à nos comportements. Des penseurs de premier plan éclairent la place de l'humanité dans la grande expérience de la nature, explorant le sexe, l'intelligence, la santé et les innombrables particularités qui font de nous des êtres uniquement humains.

Évolution Résumés de livres

The Social Conquest of Earth

par Edward O. Wilson • 2012

Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🏛️ Multilevel Selection ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

The Social Conquest of Earth

Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.

par Edward O. Wilson 2012 352 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🏛️ Multilevel Selection ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

Live Long, Die Short

par Roger Landry • 2014

Your aging is 70% under your control. The manual is buried in your ancestors' daily life.

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👴 Healthy Aging 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🐢 Incremental Change 🧠 Lifelong Learning 🤝 Social Connection

Live Long, Die Short

Your aging is 70% under your control. The manual is buried in your ancestors' daily life.

par Roger Landry 2014 264 pages

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👴 Healthy Aging 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🐢 Incremental Change 🧠 Lifelong Learning 🤝 Social Connection

Coyote America

par Dan Flores • 2016

America's century-long war on coyotes failed so completely they now roam downtown Chicago.

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🐺 Animal Histories 🧬 Evolutionary Adaptation 🏙️ Urban Ecology ⚡ Human-Wildlife Conflict 🎭 Trickster Mythology

Coyote America

America's century-long war on coyotes failed so completely they now roam downtown Chicago.

par Dan Flores 2016 271 pages

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🐺 Animal Histories 🧬 Evolutionary Adaptation 🏙️ Urban Ecology ⚡ Human-Wildlife Conflict 🎭 Trickster Mythology

The Power of Not Thinking

par Simon Roberts • 2020

AI beats us at chess but cannot pick up a pencil. The intelligence in your bones.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 👃 Sensory Anthropology ⚡ Expert Intuition 💪 Muscle Memory 📊 Big Data Critique

The Power of Not Thinking

AI beats us at chess but cannot pick up a pencil. The intelligence in your bones.

par Simon Roberts 2020 336 pages

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 👃 Sensory Anthropology ⚡ Expert Intuition 💪 Muscle Memory 📊 Big Data Critique

How We Became Human

par Tim Dean • 2021

Your sense of right and wrong evolved for the Stone Age. It's time for an upgrade.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Cultural Evolution 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🏕️ Tribalism

How We Became Human

Your sense of right and wrong evolved for the Stone Age. It's time for an upgrade.

par Tim Dean 2021 341 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Cultural Evolution 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🏕️ Tribalism

The Neuropsychology of Anxiety

par Jeffrey A. Gray • 1982

Anxiety is not fear. It is the brain's hesitation state when goals collide, with its own circuitry.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 💊 Psychopharmacology 🐒 Evolutionary Psychiatry ⚠️ Threat Detection 😰 Anxiety Mechanisms

The Neuropsychology of Anxiety

Anxiety is not fear. It is the brain's hesitation state when goals collide, with its own circuitry.

par Jeffrey A. Gray 1982 448 pages

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 💊 Psychopharmacology 🐒 Evolutionary Psychiatry ⚠️ Threat Detection 😰 Anxiety Mechanisms

The Social Paradox

par William Von Hippel • 2025

Autonomy is the sugar of modern life: everywhere, irresistible, and quietly ruining your well-being.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Connection 😊 Happiness Studies 🦎 Evolutionary Mismatch 💔 Loneliness Epidemic

The Social Paradox

Autonomy is the sugar of modern life: everywhere, irresistible, and quietly ruining your well-being.

par William Von Hippel 2025 304 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Connection 😊 Happiness Studies 🦎 Evolutionary Mismatch 💔 Loneliness Epidemic

Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World

par Keith E. Stanovich • 2009

Your automatic mind betrays you daily. Here is why, and how to take back control.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Probabilistic Reasoning 🪞 Metacognition 🤝 Collective Action

Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World

Your automatic mind betrays you daily. Here is why, and how to take back control.

par Keith E. Stanovich 2009 208 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Probabilistic Reasoning 🪞 Metacognition 🤝 Collective Action

All Things Are Full of Gods

par David Bentley Hart • 2024

Physicalism cannot explain a single conscious thought. The case for mind as reality's foundation.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💭 Consciousness Studies 💡 Philosophical Idealism 📖 Critique Of Physicalism ⛪ Natural Theology

All Things Are Full of Gods

Physicalism cannot explain a single conscious thought. The case for mind as reality's foundation.

par David Bentley Hart 2024 511 pages

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💭 Consciousness Studies 💡 Philosophical Idealism 📖 Critique Of Physicalism ⛪ Natural Theology

Conspiracy

par Michael Shermer • 2022

Ancient threat detection meets Twitter. Your brain was not built for this, and it shows.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔍 Motivated Reasoning 🕵️ Conspiracy Belief 🐺 Tribal Psychology

Conspiracy

Ancient threat detection meets Twitter. Your brain was not built for this, and it shows.

par Michael Shermer 2022 376 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔍 Motivated Reasoning 🕵️ Conspiracy Belief 🐺 Tribal Psychology

Words and Rules

par Steven Pinker • 1999

Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.

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🧠 Psycholinguistics 📚 Language Acquisition 💭 Connectionism Debate 🧩 Mental Grammar 🔤 Language Universals

Words and Rules

Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.

par Steven Pinker 1999 397 pages

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🧠 Psycholinguistics 📚 Language Acquisition 💭 Connectionism Debate 🧩 Mental Grammar 🔤 Language Universals

Aping Mankind

par Raymond Tallis • 2011

Brain and genes can't contain a mind: the fatal gap in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤯 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ Mind-Body Problem 🕊️ Free Will 🎯 Intentionality

Aping Mankind

Brain and genes can't contain a mind: the fatal gap in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.

par Raymond Tallis 2011 400 pages

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🤯 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ Mind-Body Problem 🕊️ Free Will 🎯 Intentionality

The Fear Factor

par Abigail Marsh • 2017

Heroes and psychopaths: separated by how one brain region processes fear.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🫂 Empathy Research 🎭 Psychopathy 🤝 Prosocial Behavior

The Fear Factor

Heroes and psychopaths: separated by how one brain region processes fear.

par Abigail Marsh 2017 302 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🫂 Empathy Research 🎭 Psychopathy 🤝 Prosocial Behavior

Science of Consequences

par Susan M. Schneider • 2012

Pigeons learning, genes activating, societies changing: one set of rules governs them all.

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🧠 Behaviorism 🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🔗 Neuroplasticity 🐕 Animal Training 🧩 Applied Behavior Analysis

Science of Consequences

Pigeons learning, genes activating, societies changing: one set of rules governs them all.

par Susan M. Schneider 2012 384 pages

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🧠 Behaviorism 🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🔗 Neuroplasticity 🐕 Animal Training 🧩 Applied Behavior Analysis

Born to Rebel

par Frank J. Sulloway • 1996

Firstborns guard the status quo; laterborns upend it. The pattern holds from nursery to revolution.

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👥 Sibling Dynamics 🧠 Personality Formation 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Conformity And Rebellion 🔭 Scientific Revolutions

Born to Rebel

Firstborns guard the status quo; laterborns upend it. The pattern holds from nursery to revolution.

par Frank J. Sulloway 1996 672 pages

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👥 Sibling Dynamics 🧠 Personality Formation 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Conformity And Rebellion 🔭 Scientific Revolutions

The Diversity of Life

par Edward O. Wilson • 1992

Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.

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🧬 Biodiversity Science 🌿 Conservation Biology 💀 Mass Extinction 🔑 Keystone Species 🪓 Habitat Destruction

The Diversity of Life

Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.

par Edward O. Wilson 1992 432 pages

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🧬 Biodiversity Science 🌿 Conservation Biology 💀 Mass Extinction 🔑 Keystone Species 🪓 Habitat Destruction

How to Sleep Like a Caveman

par Merijn van de Laar • 2025

Fragmented sleep is normal. An evolutionary approach to insomnia that changes how you wake.

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🧬 Sleep Science 🕰️ Circadian Rhythms 😴 Insomnia Treatment 🛏️ Sleep Hygiene 😰 Sleep Anxiety

How to Sleep Like a Caveman

Fragmented sleep is normal. An evolutionary approach to insomnia that changes how you wake.

par Merijn van de Laar 2025 304 pages

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🧬 Sleep Science 🕰️ Circadian Rhythms 😴 Insomnia Treatment 🛏️ Sleep Hygiene 😰 Sleep Anxiety

A Natural History of Human Emotions

par Stuart Walton • 2005

Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Cultural History 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🏗️ Social Construction 😇 Moral Emotions

A Natural History of Human Emotions

Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.

par Stuart Walton 2005 436 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Cultural History 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🏗️ Social Construction 😇 Moral Emotions

Understanding Living Systems

par Raymond Noble • 2023

DNA is not your destiny: the cell rewrites its genome, and organisms direct evolution.

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🔬 Systems Biology 🧠 Systems Thinking 📚 Philosophy Of Biology 🧬 Epigenetics 🤝 Symbiotic Evolution

Understanding Living Systems

DNA is not your destiny: the cell rewrites its genome, and organisms direct evolution.

par Raymond Noble 2023 196 pages

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🔬 Systems Biology 🧠 Systems Thinking 📚 Philosophy Of Biology 🧬 Epigenetics 🤝 Symbiotic Evolution

The Frontiers of Knowledge

par A.C. Grayling • 2021

Physics, history, brain science: three frontiers where every answer opens a bigger question.

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🧪 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History 📜 Historiography 🌍 Big History 🔬 Popular Science

The Frontiers of Knowledge

Physics, history, brain science: three frontiers where every answer opens a bigger question.

par A.C. Grayling 2021 432 pages

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🧪 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Intellectual History 📜 Historiography 🌍 Big History 🔬 Popular Science

Social Darwinism in American Thought

par Richard Hofstadter • 1955

America's embrace of social Darwinism was never about the science. Its collapse wasn't either.

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🧬 Social Darwinism 📚 American Intellectual History 🧫 Eugenics 🧪 Scientific Racism 💰 Laissez-Faire Economics

Social Darwinism in American Thought

America's embrace of social Darwinism was never about the science. Its collapse wasn't either.

par Richard Hofstadter 1955 278 pages

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🧬 Social Darwinism 📚 American Intellectual History 🧫 Eugenics 🧪 Scientific Racism 💰 Laissez-Faire Economics

Evolution Controversy, The

par Thomas B. Fowler • 2007

Four schools, three definitions, one unspoken fight: the evolution controversy, surveyed.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🕊️ Science And Religion 🔍 Intelligent Design 📖 Creation Science 🔬 Philosophy Of Science

Evolution Controversy, The

Four schools, three definitions, one unspoken fight: the evolution controversy, surveyed.

par Thomas B. Fowler 2007 384 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🕊️ Science And Religion 🔍 Intelligent Design 📖 Creation Science 🔬 Philosophy Of Science

War! What Is It Good For?

par Ian Morris • 2014

Ten thousand years of war made the world ten times safer. The paradox behind that claim.

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🌍 Macrohistory 🏛️ State Formation 💣 Military Revolution 🌐 Geopolitics 🔄 Imperial Cycles

War! What Is It Good For?

Ten thousand years of war made the world ten times safer. The paradox behind that claim.

par Ian Morris 2014 512 pages

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🌍 Macrohistory 🏛️ State Formation 💣 Military Revolution 🌐 Geopolitics 🔄 Imperial Cycles

par Carole Hooven • 2021

The hormone that builds muscle and drives desire divides the sexes more cleanly than we admit.

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🧪 Behavioral Endocrinology 🚻 Sex Differences 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 💋 Human Sexuality 🏃 Athletic Performance

The hormone that builds muscle and drives desire divides the sexes more cleanly than we admit.

par Carole Hooven 2021 352 pages

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🧪 Behavioral Endocrinology 🚻 Sex Differences 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 💋 Human Sexuality 🏃 Athletic Performance

Virtuous Violence

par Alan Page Fiske • 2014

Perpetrators of violence usually believe their actions are justified. A unified theory of why.

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🌍 Cultural Anthropology ⚔️ Violence Studies 🛡️ Honor Cultures 🔄 Cultural Relativism

Virtuous Violence

Perpetrators of violence usually believe their actions are justified. A unified theory of why.

par Alan Page Fiske 2014 384 pages

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🌍 Cultural Anthropology ⚔️ Violence Studies 🛡️ Honor Cultures 🔄 Cultural Relativism

Animal Architects

par James L. Gould • 2007

From termite towers to bowerbird galleries, animal architecture is the fossil record of cognition.

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🧠 Animal Cognition 🐾 Ethology 🏗️ Animal Architecture 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🕊️ Cognitive Ethology

Animal Architects

From termite towers to bowerbird galleries, animal architecture is the fossil record of cognition.

par James L. Gould 2007 336 pages

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🧠 Animal Cognition 🐾 Ethology 🏗️ Animal Architecture 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🕊️ Cognitive Ethology

Political Animals

par Rick Shenkman • 2016

Democracy asks 150-person brains to govern millions. The predictable failures, and the fix.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🦎 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏴 Tribalism

Political Animals

Democracy asks 150-person brains to govern millions. The predictable failures, and the fix.

par Rick Shenkman 2016 336 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🦎 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏴 Tribalism

Diversity and Complexity

par Scott E. Page • 2010

Diversity isn't a slogan: it's a measurable property with predictable benefits and knowable limits.

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🌀 Complexity Science 🏜️ Santa Fe Institute 🐝 Emergence 🔄 Adaptive Systems 🛡️ System Resilience

Diversity and Complexity

Diversity isn't a slogan: it's a measurable property with predictable benefits and knowable limits.

par Scott E. Page 2010 304 pages

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🌀 Complexity Science 🏜️ Santa Fe Institute 🐝 Emergence 🔄 Adaptive Systems 🛡️ System Resilience

Mother Brain

par Chelsea Conaboy • 2022

Maternal instinct is a fairytale. Parenthood reshapes the brain for everyone who cares for a baby.

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🧪 Parenting Science 🤱 Maternal Mental Health 🧠 Brain Plasticity ✊ Feminist Science 🤝 Social Neuroscience

Mother Brain

Maternal instinct is a fairytale. Parenthood reshapes the brain for everyone who cares for a baby.

par Chelsea Conaboy 2022 368 pages

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🧪 Parenting Science 🤱 Maternal Mental Health 🧠 Brain Plasticity ✊ Feminist Science 🤝 Social Neuroscience

War, Peace, and Human Nature

par Douglas P. Fry • 2013

War began with farming, not in our genes. Twelve millennia of silence before that upends everything.

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🧬 Human Evolution ⚔️ Origins Of War 🕊️ Peace Studies 🐒 Primate Behavior 🏹 Nomadic Foragers

War, Peace, and Human Nature

War began with farming, not in our genes. Twelve millennia of silence before that upends everything.

par Douglas P. Fry 2013 582 pages

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🧬 Human Evolution ⚔️ Origins Of War 🕊️ Peace Studies 🐒 Primate Behavior 🏹 Nomadic Foragers

The Greatest Show on Earth

par Richard Dawkins • 2009

From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🎯 Natural Selection 🦴 Fossil Record 🧪 Molecular Biology 🌍 Biogeography

The Greatest Show on Earth

From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.

par Richard Dawkins 2009 470 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🎯 Natural Selection 🦴 Fossil Record 🧪 Molecular Biology 🌍 Biogeography

A Mind of Her Own

par Anne Campbell • 2002

Why women play it safe, choose mates carefully, and bond like sisters: an evolutionary account.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚧ Sex Differences 👶 Parental Investment 💕 Human Mating 👑 Female Competition

A Mind of Her Own

Why women play it safe, choose mates carefully, and bond like sisters: an evolutionary account.

par Anne Campbell 2002 404 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚧ Sex Differences 👶 Parental Investment 💕 Human Mating 👑 Female Competition

So Very Small

par Thomas Levenson • 2025

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

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🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

So Very Small

How humanity finally saw the invisible world, defeated it, and may now lose the rematch.

par Thomas Levenson 2025 448 pages

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🏥 History Of Medicine 🦠 Germ Theory 🤒 Infectious Disease 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🔬 Microbial World

The Good Virus

par Tom Ireland • 2023

Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.

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🦠 Phage Therapy 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌍 Microbial Ecology 🥶 Cold War Science 🧬 Molecular Biology History

The Good Virus

Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.

par Tom Ireland 2023 400 pages

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🦠 Phage Therapy 💊 Antibiotic Resistance 🌍 Microbial Ecology 🥶 Cold War Science 🧬 Molecular Biology History

The Great Disruption

par Francis Fukuyama • 1999

The knowledge economy dissolved trust and cooperation. Our biology has a fix.

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🏛️ Social Order 🤝 Social Capital 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Game Theory 🔄 Spontaneous Order

The Great Disruption

The knowledge economy dissolved trust and cooperation. Our biology has a fix.

par Francis Fukuyama 1999 368 pages

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🏛️ Social Order 🤝 Social Capital 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🎲 Game Theory 🔄 Spontaneous Order

The Ethnic Phenomenon

par Pierre L. van den Berghe • 1981

Ethnic groups are extended families. The biology of nepotism powers prejudice and empire.

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🧬 Sociobiology ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Social Stratification 📜 Colonialism Studies

The Ethnic Phenomenon

Ethnic groups are extended families. The biology of nepotism powers prejudice and empire.

par Pierre L. van den Berghe 1981 318 pages

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🧬 Sociobiology ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Social Stratification 📜 Colonialism Studies

Reading in the Brain

par Stanislas Dehaene • 2007

The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 📖 Reading Science 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧬 Cultural Evolution 📝 Dyslexia

Reading in the Brain

The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.

par Stanislas Dehaene 2007 388 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 📖 Reading Science 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧬 Cultural Evolution 📝 Dyslexia

Animal Architecture

par Karl von Frisch • 1974

Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.

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🐾 Animal Behavior 🏗️ Natural Architecture 🔬 Ethology 📖 Natural History 🧠 Instinct And Learning

Animal Architecture

Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.

par Karl von Frisch 1974 306 pages

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🐾 Animal Behavior 🏗️ Natural Architecture 🔬 Ethology 📖 Natural History 🧠 Instinct And Learning

The Mind-Body Method

par Anders Hansen • 2024

Your brain evolved for motion. A sedentary life is quietly dismantling your focus, mood, and memory.

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🧠 Exercise Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Movement And Mood ⚡ Stress Biology

The Mind-Body Method

Your brain evolved for motion. A sedentary life is quietly dismantling your focus, mood, and memory.

par Anders Hansen 2024 250 pages

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🧠 Exercise Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🏃 Movement And Mood ⚡ Stress Biology

I Think, Therefore I Lie

par Warren Archer • 2019

Self-deception evolved first, lying to others came second, and objectivity was never the goal.

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🤥 Self-Deception 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📢 Misinformation 💭 Memory Fallibility

I Think, Therefore I Lie

Self-deception evolved first, lying to others came second, and objectivity was never the goal.

par Warren Archer 2019 220 pages

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🤥 Self-Deception 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📢 Misinformation 💭 Memory Fallibility

DNA

par James D. Watson • 2002

DNA's co-discoverer on how the double helix became a tool to rewrite medicine, crime, and identity.

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🧬 Molecular Biology ✂️ Genetic Engineering 📜 History Of Genetics 🔍 DNA Forensics 🧠 Nature Nurture Debate

DNA

DNA's co-discoverer on how the double helix became a tool to rewrite medicine, crime, and identity.

par James D. Watson 2002 464 pages

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🧬 Molecular Biology ✂️ Genetic Engineering 📜 History Of Genetics 🔍 DNA Forensics 🧠 Nature Nurture Debate

Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine

par Lee Know • 2018

The same cellular engines that made complex life possible are quietly driving your slow decline.

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🔬 Mitochondrial Health 🩺 Functional Medicine 🔥 Metabolic Health ⏳ Anti-Aging Science ⚡ Energy Metabolism

Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine

The same cellular engines that made complex life possible are quietly driving your slow decline.

par Lee Know 2018 353 pages

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🔬 Mitochondrial Health 🩺 Functional Medicine 🔥 Metabolic Health ⏳ Anti-Aging Science ⚡ Energy Metabolism

La maldición del hombre mono

par Emiliano Bruner • 2025

Why evolution left humans perpetually dissatisfied, and how training attention can change that.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🐒 Human Evolution 🧘 Meditation Practice 🎯 Attention Management 🗣️ Mental Chatter

La maldición del hombre mono

Why evolution left humans perpetually dissatisfied, and how training attention can change that.

par Emiliano Bruner 2025 208 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🐒 Human Evolution 🧘 Meditation Practice 🎯 Attention Management 🗣️ Mental Chatter

The Story of Birds

par Steve Brusatte • 2026

How feathers, beaks, and song evolved from the dinosaurs that survived Earth's worst day.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Bird Evolution 🦴 Paleontology 🪶 Origin Of Flight ☄️ Mass Extinctions

The Story of Birds

How feathers, beaks, and song evolved from the dinosaurs that survived Earth's worst day.

par Steve Brusatte 2026 448 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Bird Evolution 🦴 Paleontology 🪶 Origin Of Flight ☄️ Mass Extinctions

Nations

par Azar Gat • 2012

The nation is no modern fabrication. Its roots reach into our evolutionary past.

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📜 Nationalism Studies 🏛️ Political History 🏗️ State Formation ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🧠 Evolutionary Psych

Nations

The nation is no modern fabrication. Its roots reach into our evolutionary past.

par Azar Gat 2012 447 pages

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📜 Nationalism Studies 🏛️ Political History 🏗️ State Formation ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict 🧠 Evolutionary Psych

Religion in Human Evolution

par Robert N. Bellah • 2011

Before belief, play. The story from animal ritual to Axial sages who questioned every god.

3.97

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🕉️ Comparative Religion ⏳ Deep History 🏛️ Axial Age 🎭 Ritual And Play 🤝 Egalitarian Societies

Religion in Human Evolution

Before belief, play. The story from animal ritual to Axial sages who questioned every god.

par Robert N. Bellah 2011 776 pages

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🕉️ Comparative Religion ⏳ Deep History 🏛️ Axial Age 🎭 Ritual And Play 🤝 Egalitarian Societies

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships

par Louis Cozolino • 2006

Two brains are needed to build one: the science of how relationships physically sculpt the mind.

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🔗 Attachment Theory 🕳️ Implicit Memory 🧬 Polyvagal Theory

The Neuroscience of Human Relationships

Two brains are needed to build one: the science of how relationships physically sculpt the mind.

par Louis Cozolino 2006 464 pages

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🔗 Attachment Theory 🕳️ Implicit Memory 🧬 Polyvagal Theory

The Watchman's Rattle

par Rebecca D. Costa • 2009

Civilizations do not fail from scarcity or war. They fail when problems outthink brains.

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⛓️ Societal Collapse 🧠 Cognitive Science 🦠 Cultural Evolution 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📊 Information Overload

The Watchman's Rattle

Civilizations do not fail from scarcity or war. They fail when problems outthink brains.

par Rebecca D. Costa 2009 347 pages

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⛓️ Societal Collapse 🧠 Cognitive Science 🦠 Cultural Evolution 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📊 Information Overload

Yanılgının İcadı

par Abdullah Reha Nazlı • 2020

Your brain is still running hunter-gatherer software. Modern life is the bug.

4.43

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Human Evolution ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch 🎢 Hedonic Adaptation 📱 Attention Economy

Yanılgının İcadı

Your brain is still running hunter-gatherer software. Modern life is the bug.

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