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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation Summary
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
by Olivia Judson 2002 320 pages
4.06
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Humor
Freedom Evolves Summary
Freedom Evolves
by Daniel C. Dennett 2003 368 pages
3.82
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
The Red Queen Summary
The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley 2003 416 pages
4.05
16k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Magic of Reality Summary
The Magic of Reality
How We Know What's Really True
by Richard Dawkins 2012 272 pages
4.05
26k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Religion
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Evolution and Human Life [Import] [Hardcover]
by Jared Diamond 1991 364 pages
4.08
27k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
The Story of the Human Body Summary
The Story of the Human Body
Evolution, Health, and Disease
by Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 pages
4.26
8k+ ratings
Science
Health
Biology
Moral Minds Summary
Moral Minds
The Nature of Right and Wrong
by Marc Hauser 2007 528 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Dragons of Eden Summary
The Dragons of Eden
Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
by Carl Sagan 1986 288 pages
4.19
20k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Evolution
The Consuming Instinct Summary
The Consuming Instinct
What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
by Gad Saad 2011 374 pages
3.71
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
The Archaeology of Mind Summary
The Archaeology of Mind
Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
by Jaak Panksepp 2012 592 pages
4.44
100+ ratings
Psychology
Neuroscience
Science
The Invisible History of the Human Race Summary
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
by Christine Kenneally 2014 370 pages
3.81
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Genetics
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Summary
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?
Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2010 312 pages
3.53
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
Everyone Is African Summary
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
by Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 pages
4.11
100+ ratings
Science
Race
History
The Evolution of Everything Summary
The Evolution of Everything
How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley 2015 368 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Science
History
Philosophy
At Home in the Universe Summary
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
by Stuart A. Kauffman 1996 336 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Physics
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters Summary
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
by Alan S. Miller 2008 272 pages
3.56
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Power, Sex, Suicide Summary
Power, Sex, Suicide
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by Nick Lane 2006 368 pages
4.25
3k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Summary
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Stories in Our Genes
by Adam Rutherford 2016
4.03
10k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
Evolution of Desire Summary
Evolution of Desire
by David M. Buss 2016 448 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Relationships
The Meme Machine Summary
The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore 2000 288 pages
3.86
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Science of Love Summary
The Science of Love
by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2012 320 pages
3.5
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Popular Science
A Natural History of Human Thinking Summary
A Natural History of Human Thinking
by Michael Tomasello 2014 192 pages
3.97
100+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
She Has Her Mother's Laugh Summary
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer 2018 672 pages
4.16
6k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
The Social Leap Summary
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
by William Von Hippel 2018 304 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Ape that Understood the Universe Summary
The Ape that Understood the Universe
How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams 2018 378 pages
4.24
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
Darwin Comes to Town Summary
Darwin Comes to Town
How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
by Menno Schilthuizen 2018 304 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Science
Nature
Biology
Spiritual Evolution Summary
Spiritual Evolution
A Scientific Defense of Faith
by George E. Vaillant 2008 256 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Spirituality
Religion
Psychology
Innate Summary
Innate
How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
by Kevin J. Mitchell 2018 304 pages
4.16
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings Summary
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
by Randolph M. Nesse 2019 384 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Mental Health
Why Is Sex Fun? Summary
Why Is Sex Fun?
The Evolution of Human Sexuality
by Jared Diamond 1997 176 pages
3.7
6k+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Sexuality
Evolutionary Psychology Summary
Evolutionary Psychology
The New Science of the Mind
by David M. Buss 2019 518 pages
4.34
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Humanimal Summary
Humanimal
How Homo Sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
by Adam Rutherford 2019 256 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
The Naked Ape Summary
The Naked Ape
A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
by Desmond Morris 2010 272 pages
3.93
11k+ ratings
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
Genome Summary
Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley 2006 368 pages
4.06
26k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Genetics
What Do You Think You Are? Summary
What Do You Think You Are?
The Science of What Makes You You
by Brian Clegg 2020 288 pages
3.31
100+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Self Help
Sperm Wars Summary
Sperm Wars
Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
by Robin Baker 2006 404 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
From Darwin to Derrida Summary
From Darwin to Derrida
Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
by David Haig 2020 512 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Evolution
Mating Intelligence Unleashed Summary
Mating Intelligence Unleashed
The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love
by Glenn Geher 2013 298 pages
3.69
100+ ratings
Psychology
Sexuality
Science
The Evolution of Cooperation Summary
The Evolution of Cooperation
by Robert Axelrod 2006 264 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Economics
Science
Psychology
Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 353 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
The Molecule That Made the World
by Nick Lane 2002
4.14
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
The Animal Kingdom Summary
The Animal Kingdom
A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Holland 2012 144 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Science
Biology
Nature
Thinking Big Summary
Thinking Big
How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind
by Clive Gamble 2014 224 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Case Against Reality Summary
The Case Against Reality
Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
by Donald D. Hoffman 2019 272 pages
3.86
3k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Psychology
Human Evolution Summary
Human Evolution
A Very Short Introduction
by Bernard Wood 2019 160 pages
3.63
500+ ratings
Science
Evolution
Anthropology
Pandora's Seed Summary
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
What Evolution Is Summary
What Evolution Is
by Ernst W. Mayr 2008 432 pages
4.02
3k+ ratings
Science
Evolution
Biology
The Vital Question Summary
The Vital Question
Why is life the way it is?
by Nick Lane 2015 569 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth Summary
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by Henry Gee 2021 278 pages
4.05
2k+ ratings
Science
History
Biology
Blueprint Summary
Blueprint
How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
by Robert Plomin 2018 280 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
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