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 Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain

par Judith Horstman • 2011

Love, cocaine, and prayer light up the same brain circuits. A tour of our many bonds.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Love 🔬 Social Neuroscience ⚗️ Brain Chemistry 🤝 Bonding And Attachment 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology

The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain

Love, cocaine, and prayer light up the same brain circuits. A tour of our many bonds.

par Judith Horstman 2011 264 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Love 🔬 Social Neuroscience ⚗️ Brain Chemistry 🤝 Bonding And Attachment 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology

Wildhood

par Barbara Natterson-Horowitz • 2019

Adolescence is universal: four survival challenges link your teenager to every animal on the planet.

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🐾 Animal Behavior 🧑‍🎤 Adolescence 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 📊 Social Hierarchies 💃 Mating Rituals

Wildhood

Adolescence is universal: four survival challenges link your teenager to every animal on the planet.

par Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 2019 368 pages

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🐾 Animal Behavior 🧑‍🎤 Adolescence 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 📊 Social Hierarchies 💃 Mating Rituals

In Search of the Multiverse

par John Gribbin • 2009

Our universe seems fine-tuned for life. The real explanation: it is just one of countless tries.

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🔬 Quantum Physics 🌌 Cosmology 🌐 Multiverse Theory 🧐 Anthropic Principle 🧵 String Theory

In Search of the Multiverse

Our universe seems fine-tuned for life. The real explanation: it is just one of countless tries.

par John Gribbin 2009 250 pages

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🔬 Quantum Physics 🌌 Cosmology 🌐 Multiverse Theory 🧐 Anthropic Principle 🧵 String Theory

Do Fathers Matter?

par Paul Raeburn • 2014

Fathers matter before birth: epigenetics, hormones, and brain science reveal their hidden impact.

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👨‍👧 Fatherhood 🧒 Child Development 🤝 Paternal Involvement 🧬 Epigenetics 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Do Fathers Matter?

Fathers matter before birth: epigenetics, hormones, and brain science reveal their hidden impact.

par Paul Raeburn 2014 288 pages

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👨‍👧 Fatherhood 🧒 Child Development 🤝 Paternal Involvement 🧬 Epigenetics 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Projections

par Karl Deisseroth • 2021

How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.

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🧠 Biological Psychiatry 💔 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Neural Circuits 🛋️ Patient Narratives 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

Projections

How grief, mania, and psychosis reveal the ancient brain circuits that built human emotion.

par Karl Deisseroth 2021 256 pages

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🧠 Biological Psychiatry 💔 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Neural Circuits 🛋️ Patient Narratives 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

Ecological Intelligence

par Ian McCallum • 2005

The environmental crisis is a crisis of self: we cannot save what we refuse to see as part of us.

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🌿 Deep Ecology 🧠 Ecopsychology 🌑 Shadow Work 🤔 Environmental Philosophy ⚖️ Environmental Ethics

Ecological Intelligence

The environmental crisis is a crisis of self: we cannot save what we refuse to see as part of us.

par Ian McCallum 2005 239 pages

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🌿 Deep Ecology 🧠 Ecopsychology 🌑 Shadow Work 🤔 Environmental Philosophy ⚖️ Environmental Ethics

A Criminal History of Mankind

par Colin Wilson • 1985

Why tyrants, murderers, and petty thieves all share the same stunted psychology.

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 📜 Historical Criminology 🏙️ Social Pathology 👑 Dominance And Violence 🐀 Overcrowding And Aggression

A Criminal History of Mankind

Why tyrants, murderers, and petty thieves all share the same stunted psychology.

par Colin Wilson 1985 815 pages

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 📜 Historical Criminology 🏙️ Social Pathology 👑 Dominance And Violence 🐀 Overcrowding And Aggression

The Paleo Solution

par Robb Wolf • 2010

The pre-agricultural diet your body expects: lose fat, end cravings, and reverse disease.

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🥩 Paleo Diet 🏛️ Ancestral Health 💪 Metabolic Health 🦠 Gut Health 🥑 Anti-Inflammatory Diet

The Paleo Solution

The pre-agricultural diet your body expects: lose fat, end cravings, and reverse disease.

par Robb Wolf 2010 320 pages

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🥩 Paleo Diet 🏛️ Ancestral Health 💪 Metabolic Health 🦠 Gut Health 🥑 Anti-Inflammatory Diet

The "God" Part of the Brain

par Matthew Alper • 1999

Belief in God is a biological adaptation for managing the terror of mortality.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Science Of Religion 🔬 Neurotheology 💀 Mortality Awareness 🧪 Biological Basis Of Faith

The "God" Part of the Brain

Belief in God is a biological adaptation for managing the terror of mortality.

par Matthew Alper 1999 291 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Cognitive Science Of Religion 🔬 Neurotheology 💀 Mortality Awareness 🧪 Biological Basis Of Faith

Our Kind

par Marvin Harris • 1989

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Our Kind

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

par Marvin Harris 1989 547 pages

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

par Patrick House • 2022

Movement built consciousness. Nineteen scientific guesses at how the rest of your mind followed.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏃 Embodied Cognition

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

Movement built consciousness. Nineteen scientific guesses at how the rest of your mind followed.

par Patrick House 2022 272 pages

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏃 Embodied Cognition

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

par Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2010

Your brain can manage about 150 relationships. Gossip, art, and religion are the overflow.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Limits 💘 Mate Preferences 👁️ Theory Of Mind 📜 Cultural Evolution

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

Your brain can manage about 150 relationships. Gossip, art, and religion are the overflow.

par Robin I.M. Dunbar 2010 312 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Limits 💘 Mate Preferences 👁️ Theory Of Mind 📜 Cultural Evolution

Aliens

par Jim Al-Khalili • 2016

50,000 civilizations may share our galaxy. The search is chemistry, biology, and deep listening.

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🦠 Astrobiology 🪐 Exoplanets 🧬 Origin Of Life 📡 SETI 🔬 Biosignatures

Aliens

50,000 civilizations may share our galaxy. The search is chemistry, biology, and deep listening.

par Jim Al-Khalili 2016 240 pages

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🦠 Astrobiology 🪐 Exoplanets 🧬 Origin Of Life 📡 SETI 🔬 Biosignatures

Searching for God Knows What

par Donald Miller • 2004

Skull measurements divided Europeans into three, and the conclusion reshaped history.

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🔬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Eugenics Movement 🧬 Biological Determinism 🚫 Immigration Restriction 📐 Racial Anthropology

Searching for God Knows What

Skull measurements divided Europeans into three, and the conclusion reshaped history.

par Donald Miller 2004 246 pages

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🔬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Eugenics Movement 🧬 Biological Determinism 🚫 Immigration Restriction 📐 Racial Anthropology

Less Than Human

par David Livingstone Smith • 2011

Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.

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🐀 Dehumanization 💀 Genocide Studies 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐺 Tribalism 👤 Othering

Less Than Human

Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.

par David Livingstone Smith 2011 336 pages

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🐀 Dehumanization 💀 Genocide Studies 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐺 Tribalism 👤 Othering

The Animal Kingdom

par Peter Holland • 2011

DNA reveals the animal kingdom's true family tree: insects dominate, humans are a recent arrival.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌳 Phylogenetics 🧫 Evo-Devo 🦴 Comparative Anatomy 🦎 Animal Diversity

The Animal Kingdom

DNA reveals the animal kingdom's true family tree: insects dominate, humans are a recent arrival.

par Peter Holland 2011 144 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌳 Phylogenetics 🧫 Evo-Devo 🦴 Comparative Anatomy 🦎 Animal Diversity

The Social Atom

par Mark Buchanan • 2007

Segregation, fads, and wealth gaps are not about human nature. They are physics.

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🔬 Complexity Science 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 📈 Social Contagion 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Social Atom

Segregation, fads, and wealth gaps are not about human nature. They are physics.

par Mark Buchanan 2007 256 pages

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🔬 Complexity Science 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 📈 Social Contagion 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

L'instinct du langage

par Steven Pinker • 1994

Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.

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📝 Generative Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Psycholinguistics

L'instinct du langage

Children don't learn language; they reinvent it, driven by grammar etched into the brain.

par Steven Pinker 1994 448 pages

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📝 Generative Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Psycholinguistics

The Meaning of Madness

par Neel Burton • 2008

Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.

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💊 Critical Psychiatry 🌌 Existential Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌱 Suffering And Meaning 🎨 Creativity And Madness

The Meaning of Madness

Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.

par Neel Burton 2008 220 pages

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💊 Critical Psychiatry 🌌 Existential Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌱 Suffering And Meaning 🎨 Creativity And Madness

Pleased to Meet Me

par Bill Sullivan • 2019

Everything you think you chose, from your breakfast to your beliefs, biology chose first.

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🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🔬 Epigenetics 🦠 Microbiome ⚙️ Biological Determinism 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Pleased to Meet Me

Everything you think you chose, from your breakfast to your beliefs, biology chose first.

par Bill Sullivan 2019 336 pages

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🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🔬 Epigenetics 🦠 Microbiome ⚙️ Biological Determinism 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Undeniable

par Douglas Axe • 2016

Natural selection fine-tunes, never invents. The math making life's origin by accident impossible.

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🧬 Intelligent Design 🧩 Irreducible Complexity 🌱 Origins Of Life 🧱 Materialism Critique 💭 Philosophy Of Mind

Undeniable

Natural selection fine-tunes, never invents. The math making life's origin by accident impossible.

par Douglas Axe 2016 304 pages

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🧬 Intelligent Design 🧩 Irreducible Complexity 🌱 Origins Of Life 🧱 Materialism Critique 💭 Philosophy Of Mind

On Human Nature

par Roger Scruton • 2017

Genes and memes don't explain why you honor your dead, laugh, or hold someone accountable.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📖 Narrative Identity 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

On Human Nature

Genes and memes don't explain why you honor your dead, laugh, or hold someone accountable.

par Roger Scruton 2017 151 pages

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📖 Narrative Identity 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

Answers for Aristotle

par Massimo Pigliucci • 2012

Science gives facts, philosophy gives values. Bridge them, and the good life stops being guesswork.

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🌿 Naturalistic Ethics 🪤 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Intuition And Reason 💪 Willpower And Self-Control

Answers for Aristotle

Science gives facts, philosophy gives values. Bridge them, and the good life stops being guesswork.

par Massimo Pigliucci 2012 320 pages

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🌿 Naturalistic Ethics 🪤 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Intuition And Reason 💪 Willpower And Self-Control

The Strange Order of Things

par António Damásio • 2017

Feelings, not reason, built human culture. The drive for homeostasis began in single cells.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

The Strange Order of Things

Feelings, not reason, built human culture. The drive for homeostasis began in single cells.

par António Damásio 2017 336 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🤸 Embodied Cognition 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

Lady Sapiens

par Thomas Cirotteau • 2011

The real prehistoric woman hunted, healed, and led. Her passivity was a Victorian invention.

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🏛️ Human Prehistory 🔬 Evolutionary Anthropology ⛏️ Feminist Archaeology 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 👶 Cooperative Breeding

Lady Sapiens

The real prehistoric woman hunted, healed, and led. Her passivity was a Victorian invention.

par Thomas Cirotteau 2011 240 pages

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🏛️ Human Prehistory 🔬 Evolutionary Anthropology ⛏️ Feminist Archaeology 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 👶 Cooperative Breeding

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

par John Brockman • 2014

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

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🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception 🕸️ Complex Systems 🏛️ Institutional Failure

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

par John Brockman 2014 478 pages

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🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception 🕸️ Complex Systems 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Le vrai créateur de toute chose

par Miguel Nicolelis • 2020

The human brain does not discover reality; it builds it, from physics to gods.

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🧠 Reality Construction 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧮 Limits Of Computation 👥 Social Brains

Le vrai créateur de toute chose

The human brain does not discover reality; it builds it, from physics to gods.

par Miguel Nicolelis 2020 376 pages

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🧠 Reality Construction 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🧮 Limits Of Computation 👥 Social Brains

The Developing Genome

par David S. Moore • 2015

Beyond DNA: how your experiences, diet, and stress leave lasting marks on your genome.

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🧬 Epigenetics ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧪 Gene Regulation 🧠 Brain Plasticity 👶 Early Life Stress

The Developing Genome

Beyond DNA: how your experiences, diet, and stress leave lasting marks on your genome.

par David S. Moore 2015 320 pages

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🧬 Epigenetics ⚖️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧪 Gene Regulation 🧠 Brain Plasticity 👶 Early Life Stress

The Ravenous Brain

par Daniel Bor • 2012

Consciousness is a biological trick evolution built, and its failures reveal mental illness.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 👁️ Attention And Awareness

The Ravenous Brain

Consciousness is a biological trick evolution built, and its failures reveal mental illness.

par Daniel Bor 2012 352 pages

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 👁️ Attention And Awareness

An Alchemy of Mind

par Diane Ackerman • 2004

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

An Alchemy of Mind

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

par Diane Ackerman 2004 320 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

Cognitive Gadgets

par Cecilia Heyes • 2018

Imitation and language are not instincts. They are cultural tools, rebuilt in every childhood.

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🧠 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Cognitive Psychology 👶 Cognitive Development 👥 Social Learning 📖 Cultural Transmission

Cognitive Gadgets

Imitation and language are not instincts. They are cultural tools, rebuilt in every childhood.

par Cecilia Heyes 2018 304 pages

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🧠 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Cognitive Psychology 👶 Cognitive Development 👥 Social Learning 📖 Cultural Transmission

Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect

par Read Montague • 2007

A neuroscientist on why your brain's noise and slowness are features, not flaws.

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🧠 Computational Neuroscience 🤔 Decision Neuroscience 🎁 Reward Learning ⚡ Brain Efficiency 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect

A neuroscientist on why your brain's noise and slowness are features, not flaws.

par Read Montague 2007 348 pages

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🧠 Computational Neuroscience 🤔 Decision Neuroscience 🎁 Reward Learning ⚡ Brain Efficiency 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Web of Life

par Fritjof Capra • 1996

Life and mind are the same self-organizing process from the first cell to the living planet.

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🧩 Systems Thinking 🔄 Self-Organization 🔀 Complexity Science 🧬 Theoretical Biology 🌍 Gaia Hypothesis

The Web of Life

Life and mind are the same self-organizing process from the first cell to the living planet.

par Fritjof Capra 1996 347 pages

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🧩 Systems Thinking 🔄 Self-Organization 🔀 Complexity Science 🧬 Theoretical Biology 🌍 Gaia Hypothesis

Invisible Rivals

par Jonathan R Goodman • 2025

We compete constantly without knowing it; language is the weapon that hides the battle.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🕵️ Hidden Motives 🤝 Cooperation And Cheating 🎫 Moral Licensing 🪞 Self-Deception

Invisible Rivals

We compete constantly without knowing it; language is the weapon that hides the battle.

par Jonathan R Goodman 2025 256 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🕵️ Hidden Motives 🤝 Cooperation And Cheating 🎫 Moral Licensing 🪞 Self-Deception

Pandora's Seed

par Spencer Wells • 2010

Farming gave us civilization. It also gave us chronic disease, overstimulation, and fundamentalism.

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agriculture's Costs 🧫 Recent Human Evolution 🫀 Diseases Of Civilization 🧪 Genetic Ethics

Pandora's Seed

Farming gave us civilization. It also gave us chronic disease, overstimulation, and fundamentalism.

par Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agriculture's Costs 🧫 Recent Human Evolution 🫀 Diseases Of Civilization 🧪 Genetic Ethics

The Lion in the Living Room

par Abigail Tucker • 2016

Cats tamed themselves, charm us with baby-like features, kill billions, and now rule the Internet.

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🐱 Cat Evolution 🐄 Animal Domestication 🐍 Invasive Species 🧫 Parasite Manipulation 🏙️ Urban Ecology

The Lion in the Living Room

Cats tamed themselves, charm us with baby-like features, kill billions, and now rule the Internet.

par Abigail Tucker 2016 243 pages

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🐱 Cat Evolution 🐄 Animal Domestication 🐍 Invasive Species 🧫 Parasite Manipulation 🏙️ Urban Ecology

The Marriage of Sense and Soul

par Ken Wilber • 1998

The war between science and religion is a category error. Fix the method, conflict dissolves.

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🧪 Science And Religion 🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🧩 Integral Theory 📚 Epistemology 🧠 Transpersonal Psychology

The Marriage of Sense and Soul

The war between science and religion is a category error. Fix the method, conflict dissolves.

par Ken Wilber 1998 142 pages

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🧪 Science And Religion 🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🧩 Integral Theory 📚 Epistemology 🧠 Transpersonal Psychology

Mutants

par Armand Marie Leroi • 2003

The hidden genetic rules that build the human body, revealed by its most extreme errors.

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🔬 Developmental Biology 🧬 Human Genetics 🔀 Genetic Mutations 🌍 Human Variation ⚕️ Evolutionary Medicine

Mutants

The hidden genetic rules that build the human body, revealed by its most extreme errors.

par Armand Marie Leroi 2003 448 pages

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🔬 Developmental Biology 🧬 Human Genetics 🔀 Genetic Mutations 🌍 Human Variation ⚕️ Evolutionary Medicine

The Case of the Female Orgasm

par Elisabeth A. Lloyd • 2005

Female orgasm is nature's spare part: a developmental echo of the penis that science misinterpreted.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology ♀️ Female Sexuality 🛠️ Adaptationism 📖 Just-So Stories 🔬 Feminist Science Studies

The Case of the Female Orgasm

Female orgasm is nature's spare part: a developmental echo of the penis that science misinterpreted.

par Elisabeth A. Lloyd 2005 320 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology ♀️ Female Sexuality 🛠️ Adaptationism 📖 Just-So Stories 🔬 Feminist Science Studies

100 mental models

par Wisdom Theory

Why a hundred borrowed concepts from physics, economics, and psychology beat expertise alone.

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🧠 Mental Models 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🧭 Decision Frameworks 🔄 Systems Thinking 📉 Behavioral Economics

100 mental models

Why a hundred borrowed concepts from physics, economics, and psychology beat expertise alone.

par Wisdom Theory

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🧠 Mental Models 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🧭 Decision Frameworks 🔄 Systems Thinking 📉 Behavioral Economics

How Music Can Make You Better

par Indre Viskontas • 2019

The neuroscience behind why a song can stop time, ease pain, and bond strangers.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Music 🎵 Music Therapy 🔄 Neuroplasticity 😢 Music And Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

How Music Can Make You Better

The neuroscience behind why a song can stop time, ease pain, and bond strangers.

par Indre Viskontas 2019 122 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Music 🎵 Music Therapy 🔄 Neuroplasticity 😢 Music And Emotion 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

What Do You Think You Are?

par Brian Clegg • 2020

Your atoms were forged in dying stars. The rest of you is harder to explain.

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🧬 Human Origins 🧠 Consciousness 🌱 Nature Vs Nurture 👤 Self And Identity 💫 Cosmic Origins

What Do You Think You Are?

Your atoms were forged in dying stars. The rest of you is harder to explain.

par Brian Clegg 2020 288 pages

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🧬 Human Origins 🧠 Consciousness 🌱 Nature Vs Nurture 👤 Self And Identity 💫 Cosmic Origins

A Garden of Marvels

par Ruth Kassinger • 2014

Sex in flowers, air-eating leaves, allied roots: botany's strangest truths took centuries to accept.

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A Garden of Marvels

Sex in flowers, air-eating leaves, allied roots: botany's strangest truths took centuries to accept.

par Ruth Kassinger 2014 416 pages

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The Future of the Brain

par Gary F. Marcus • 2014

The brain's future, mapped by neuroscientists building it: from gene to circuit to consciousness

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🧠 Neuroscience Research 🗺️ Brain Mapping ⚡ Neural Circuits 💻 Computational Neuroscience 💭 Consciousness Studies

The Future of the Brain

The brain's future, mapped by neuroscientists building it: from gene to circuit to consciousness

par Gary F. Marcus 2014 304 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience Research 🗺️ Brain Mapping ⚡ Neural Circuits 💻 Computational Neuroscience 💭 Consciousness Studies

Evolution's Captain

par Peter Nichols • 2003

He kidnapped four Fuegians to save them, gave Darwin his ship, and was destroyed by both.

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🚢 Naval Exploration 🔬 Victorian Science 📜 Biographical History ⚔️ Faith And Science 🌍 Cultural Collision

Evolution's Captain

He kidnapped four Fuegians to save them, gave Darwin his ship, and was destroyed by both.

par Peter Nichols 2003 336 pages

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🚢 Naval Exploration 🔬 Victorian Science 📜 Biographical History ⚔️ Faith And Science 🌍 Cultural Collision

Why Brains Need Friends

par Ben Rein • 2025

Your brain is built to connect, then sabotages every attempt. The neuroscience of fixing it.

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🦴 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🌍 Prosocial Behavior 🐕 Human-Animal Bond

Why Brains Need Friends

Your brain is built to connect, then sabotages every attempt. The neuroscience of fixing it.

par Ben Rein 2025 256 pages

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🦴 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🌍 Prosocial Behavior 🐕 Human-Animal Bond

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

par Edward Dolnick • 2024

Before Darwin, bizarre fossils had already cracked the God-ordained universe wide open.

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🎩 Victorian Science 📜 History Of Science ⛏️ Fossil Hunting 💀 Extinction ⏳ Deep Time

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Before Darwin, bizarre fossils had already cracked the God-ordained universe wide open.

par Edward Dolnick 2024 338 pages

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🎩 Victorian Science 📜 History Of Science ⛏️ Fossil Hunting 💀 Extinction ⏳ Deep Time

Gulp

par Mary Roach • 2013

Rectal smuggling, flammable farts, and Elvis: a tour of the digestive tract's hidden life.

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🧬 Digestive Science 🚫 Bodily Taboos 👃 Sensory Science 🦠 Gut Microbiome 🏥 Medical History

Gulp

Rectal smuggling, flammable farts, and Elvis: a tour of the digestive tract's hidden life.

par Mary Roach 2013 348 pages

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🧬 Digestive Science 🚫 Bodily Taboos 👃 Sensory Science 🦠 Gut Microbiome 🏥 Medical History

This View of Life

par David Sloan Wilson • 2019

Social Darwinism got Darwin wrong. His real theory: cooperation, not competition, built humanity.

3.96

372

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 👥 Group Selection ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Systems Thinking

This View of Life

Social Darwinism got Darwin wrong. His real theory: cooperation, not competition, built humanity.

par David Sloan Wilson 2019 288 pages

3.96

372 évaluations

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 👥 Group Selection ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Systems Thinking

Riveted

par Jim Davies • 2014

Religion and art exploit the same brain quirks. Science alone refuses to use them, and it's losing.

3.70

406

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤔 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Cognition 🔍 Pattern Recognition 💭 Belief Formation

Riveted

Religion and art exploit the same brain quirks. Science alone refuses to use them, and it's losing.

par Jim Davies 2014 288 pages

3.70

406 évaluations

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤔 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Cognition 🔍 Pattern Recognition 💭 Belief Formation

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