Evolução

Nossa história ancestral se revela através da ciência de ponta, mostrando como o DNA, a seleção natural e as forças biológicas moldaram tudo, desde nossos corpos até nossos comportamentos. Pensadores de destaque iluminam o lugar da humanidade no grande experimento da natureza, explorando sexo, inteligência, saúde e as inúmeras peculiaridades que nos tornam singularmente humanos.

Evolução Resumos de Livros

Driven

por Paul R. Lawrence • 2001

Darwin glimpsed it, the Framers encoded it, and ignoring it just crashed the economy.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏢 Organizational Leadership ⚖️ Evolutionary Ethics

Driven

Darwin glimpsed it, the Framers encoded it, and ignoring it just crashed the economy.

por Paul R. Lawrence 2001 300 páginas

3.98

3.000+ avaliações

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏢 Organizational Leadership ⚖️ Evolutionary Ethics

Losing Eden

por Lucy Jones • 2020

Soil contains a natural antidepressant. What disconnection from nature does to the mind.

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🔗 Nature Connection 🧠 Ecopsychology 🌱 Nature Therapy

Losing Eden

Soil contains a natural antidepressant. What disconnection from nature does to the mind.

por Lucy Jones 2020 256 páginas

4.05

2.000+ avaliações

🔗 Nature Connection 🧠 Ecopsychology 🌱 Nature Therapy

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love

por Allan Pease • 2021

Men chase youth, women chase resources. Here is how to use that knowledge to find your match.

4.30

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ❤️ Mate Selection ♂️♀️ Sex Differences

Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love

Men chase youth, women chase resources. Here is how to use that knowledge to find your match.

por Allan Pease 2021 275 páginas

4.30

27 avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ❤️ Mate Selection ♂️♀️ Sex Differences

Storythinking

por Angus Fletcher • 2023

Story isn't just for communication: it's an ancient intelligence that logic and AI can't touch.

3.57

🧠 Narrative Intelligence 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ↔️ Logic Vs Narrative

Storythinking

Story isn't just for communication: it's an ancient intelligence that logic and AI can't touch.

por Angus Fletcher 2023 200 páginas

3.57

81 avaliações

🧠 Narrative Intelligence 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ↔️ Logic Vs Narrative

A Planet of Viruses

por Carl Zimmer • 2011

Viruses aren't just enemies. They built our DNA, rule the oceans, and may have sparked life.

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🦠 Virology 🌊 Microbial Ecology ⚠️ Emerging Diseases

A Planet of Viruses

Viruses aren't just enemies. They built our DNA, rule the oceans, and may have sparked life.

por Carl Zimmer 2011 109 páginas

4.06

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🦠 Virology 🌊 Microbial Ecology ⚠️ Emerging Diseases

The Securitarian Personality

por John R. Hibbing • 2020

Trump's most loyal voters aren't authoritarians. An ancient instinct to guard their own drives them.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🛡️ Threat Perception 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Securitarian Personality

Trump's most loyal voters aren't authoritarians. An ancient instinct to guard their own drives them.

por John R. Hibbing 2020 304 páginas

3.66

29 avaliações

🧠 Political Psychology 🛡️ Threat Perception 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

por Louis Cozolino • 2024

Therapy is neurobiology in action. The evidence for how relationships physically rebuild the brain.

4.40

🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🔗 Attachment Theory 🩹 Trauma Recovery

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

Therapy is neurobiology in action. The evidence for how relationships physically rebuild the brain.

por Louis Cozolino 2024 755 páginas

4.40

20 avaliações

🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🔗 Attachment Theory 🩹 Trauma Recovery

The Origins of Creativity

por Edward O. Wilson • 2017

The humanities cannot explain us without the deep evolutionary past that shaped our minds.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🎭 Two Cultures Debate

The Origins of Creativity

The humanities cannot explain us without the deep evolutionary past that shaped our minds.

por Edward O. Wilson 2017 256 páginas

3.67

1.000+ avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🎭 Two Cultures Debate

Signature in the Cell

por Stephen C. Meyer • 2009

DNA's code can't be written by material processes; the only known source is intelligence.

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🧬 Intelligent Design 🧪 Origin Of Life 🧬 Biological Information

Signature in the Cell

DNA's code can't be written by material processes; the only known source is intelligence.

por Stephen C. Meyer 2009 624 páginas

4.32

1.000+ avaliações

🧬 Intelligent Design 🧪 Origin Of Life 🧬 Biological Information

Mirrors in the Brain

por Giacomo Rizzolatti • 2006

We understand others not by thinking but by reliving their actions inside our own motor system.

3.87

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🏃 Motor Cognition 👀 Action Perception

Mirrors in the Brain

We understand others not by thinking but by reliving their actions inside our own motor system.

por Giacomo Rizzolatti 2006 256 páginas

3.87

190 avaliações

🧠 Social Neuroscience 🏃 Motor Cognition 👀 Action Perception

Genesis

por Edward O. Wilson • 2019

Why do creatures die for strangers? The real answer rewrites the origin of human society.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 📜 Deep History

Genesis

Why do creatures die for strangers? The real answer rewrites the origin of human society.

por Edward O. Wilson 2019 160 páginas

3.81

1.000+ avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 📜 Deep History

Purpose

por Samuel T. Wilkinson • 2024

Evolution is not blind chance. Deeper laws shape it, and those laws reveal your purpose.

3.71

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Science And Religion ⚖️ Moral Psychology

Purpose

Evolution is not blind chance. Deeper laws shape it, and those laws reveal your purpose.

por Samuel T. Wilkinson 2024 352 páginas

3.71

82 avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Science And Religion ⚖️ Moral Psychology

Not Born Yesterday

por Hugo Mercier • 2020

Mass persuasion rarely works. Bad ideas spread because they feel true, not because we're gullible.

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473

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Epistemology 🗣️ Persuasion And Influence

Not Born Yesterday

Mass persuasion rarely works. Bad ideas spread because they feel true, not because we're gullible.

por Hugo Mercier 2020 384 páginas

3.90

473 avaliações

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Epistemology 🗣️ Persuasion And Influence

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite

por Robert Kurzban • 2010

Inconsistency isn't a flaw in your character. It's a feature of your mental architecture.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧱 Modular Mind 🎭 Self-Deception

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite

Inconsistency isn't a flaw in your character. It's a feature of your mental architecture.

por Robert Kurzban 2010 288 páginas

3.95

500+ avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧱 Modular Mind 🎭 Self-Deception

Loneliness

por John T. Cacioppo • 2008

Loneliness is an ancient biological alarm. Ignored, it remakes the brain and sickens the body.

3.93

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🕸️ Loneliness Studies 🧠 Social Neuroscience 📢 Social Pain

Loneliness

Loneliness is an ancient biological alarm. Ignored, it remakes the brain and sickens the body.

por John T. Cacioppo 2008 336 páginas

3.93

2.000+ avaliações

🕸️ Loneliness Studies 🧠 Social Neuroscience 📢 Social Pain

Why Therapy Works

por Louis Cozolino • 2015

How therapy rewires the brain: leveraging our deepest social instincts to change fear and memory.

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🧩 Attachment Theory 💔 Trauma Recovery 🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology

Why Therapy Works

How therapy rewires the brain: leveraging our deepest social instincts to change fear and memory.

por Louis Cozolino 2015 288 páginas

4.21

500+ avaliações

🧩 Attachment Theory 💔 Trauma Recovery 🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology

Materialist Phenomenology

por Manuel DeLanda • 2021

Mindless agents and a thinking body construct perception; the self is just a story.

4.05

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🦾 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Phenomenology

Materialist Phenomenology

Mindless agents and a thinking body construct perception; the self is just a story.

por Manuel DeLanda 2021 224 páginas

4.05

21 avaliações

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🦾 Embodied Cognition 👁️ Phenomenology

The Domestication of the Human Species

por Peter J. Wilson • 1988

Walls changed us more than wheat: how permanent shelter reshaped attention, privacy, and power.

3.75

🏠 Settled Life Origins 🏡 Anthropology Of The House 🏕️ Hunter-Gatherer Studies

The Domestication of the Human Species

Walls changed us more than wheat: how permanent shelter reshaped attention, privacy, and power.

por Peter J. Wilson 1988 201 páginas

3.75

12 avaliações

🏠 Settled Life Origins 🏡 Anthropology Of The House 🏕️ Hunter-Gatherer Studies

Improbable Planet

por Hugh Ross • 2016

The universe, galaxy, solar system, and Moon each broke Earth's way at odds too perfect for chance.

4.17

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🔬 Science And Faith 🌌 Cosmic Fine-Tuning

Improbable Planet

The universe, galaxy, solar system, and Moon each broke Earth's way at odds too perfect for chance.

por Hugh Ross 2016 288 páginas

4.17

362 avaliações

🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🔬 Science And Faith 🌌 Cosmic Fine-Tuning

The Pleasure Trap

por Douglas J. Lisle • 2006

Evolution wired you to chase pleasure, dodge pain, save energy. Modern life made each one toxic.

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🧬 Evolutionary Health 🥗 Plant-Based Diet 🍩 Food Addiction

The Pleasure Trap

Evolution wired you to chase pleasure, dodge pain, save energy. Modern life made each one toxic.

por Douglas J. Lisle 2006 225 páginas

4.12

2.000+ avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Health 🥗 Plant-Based Diet 🍩 Food Addiction

Secure

por Amir Levine • 2026

Exclusion registers in the brain like physical injury. What actually restores a sense of safety.

3.87

485

🧩 Attachment Theory 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🌊 Emotional Regulation

Secure

Exclusion registers in the brain like physical injury. What actually restores a sense of safety.

por Amir Levine 2026 288 páginas

3.87

485 avaliações

🧩 Attachment Theory 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🌊 Emotional Regulation

Beyond Revenge

por Michael E. McCullough • 2008

Revenge is a craving the brain treats like hunger. Forgiveness, it turns out, is just as evolved.

3.88

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🕊️ Forgiveness Studies

Beyond Revenge

Revenge is a craving the brain treats like hunger. Forgiveness, it turns out, is just as evolved.

por Michael E. McCullough 2008 320 páginas

3.88

74 avaliações

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🕊️ Forgiveness Studies

The Survival Game

por David Philip Barash • 2003

The logic behind why animals cooperate, nations arm, and rational people sabotage themselves.

3.84

🧮 Game Theory 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Behavioral Science

The Survival Game

The logic behind why animals cooperate, nations arm, and rational people sabotage themselves.

por David Philip Barash 2003 320 páginas

3.84

44 avaliações

🧮 Game Theory 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Behavioral Science

Zoobiquity

por Barbara Natterson-Horowitz • 2012

A cardiologist walked into a zoo. Animals were dying of the same diseases her patients had.

4.19

🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🔬 Comparative Biology 🌍 One Health

Zoobiquity

A cardiologist walked into a zoo. Animals were dying of the same diseases her patients had.

por Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 2012

4.19

16 avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🔬 Comparative Biology 🌍 One Health

The Extreme Life of the Sea

por Stephen R. Palumbi • 2014

The ocean's strangest creatures survived every challenge for eons. Then we arrived.

4.00

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🐠 Marine Biology 🦑 Deep Sea Creatures 🌋 Extreme Environments

The Extreme Life of the Sea

The ocean's strangest creatures survived every challenge for eons. Then we arrived.

por Stephen R. Palumbi 2014 240 páginas

4.00

444 avaliações

🐠 Marine Biology 🦑 Deep Sea Creatures 🌋 Extreme Environments

Salvar las apariencias

por Owen Barfield • 1957

Science turned nature into dead objects. Conscious imagination might bring the cosmos back to life.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies ⛪ Philosophical Theology 📜 History Of Ideas

Salvar las apariencias

Science turned nature into dead objects. Conscious imagination might bring the cosmos back to life.

por Owen Barfield 1957 256 páginas

4.27

500+ avaliações

🧠 Consciousness Studies ⛪ Philosophical Theology 📜 History Of Ideas

Biophilia

por Edward O. Wilson • 1984

The human bond with nature is not learned but inherited, and severing it damages the psyche.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌿 Conservation Biology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Biophilia

The human bond with nature is not learned but inherited, and severing it damages the psyche.

por Edward O. Wilson 1984 157 páginas

4.27

1.000+ avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🌿 Conservation Biology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

The Rescue Effect

por Michael Mehta Webster • 2022

Species have hidden backup systems that kick in under stress. The best conservation helps them work.

3.94

🔬 Conservation Biology 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🌡️ Climate Adaptation

The Rescue Effect

Species have hidden backup systems that kick in under stress. The best conservation helps them work.

por Michael Mehta Webster 2022 296 páginas

3.94

52 avaliações

🔬 Conservation Biology 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🌡️ Climate Adaptation

The Story of Stories

por Kevin Ashton • 2026

Firelight made us storytellers. That night built language, writing, print, and now the internet.

4.09

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📖 Storytelling History 🗣️ Evolution Of Language 🔥 Oral Tradition

The Story of Stories

Firelight made us storytellers. That night built language, writing, print, and now the internet.

por Kevin Ashton 2026 400 páginas

4.09

103 avaliações

📖 Storytelling History 🗣️ Evolution Of Language 🔥 Oral Tradition

The Living Company

por Arie de Geus • 1997

Average company lifespan: 12.5 years. The 700-year survivors share instincts most managers suppress.

4.11

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🏫 Learning Organization 🔮 Scenario Planning ⏳ Corporate Longevity

The Living Company

Average company lifespan: 12.5 years. The 700-year survivors share instincts most managers suppress.

por Arie de Geus 1997 240 páginas

4.11

264 avaliações

🏫 Learning Organization 🔮 Scenario Planning ⏳ Corporate Longevity

Zoobiquity

por Barbara Natterson-Horowitz • 2012

Animals faint, self-harm, and overdose just like we do; their doctors know why ours don't.

4.12

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🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🔬 Comparative Biology 🌍 One Health

Zoobiquity

Animals faint, self-harm, and overdose just like we do; their doctors know why ours don't.

por Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 2012 416 páginas

4.12

3.000+ avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🔬 Comparative Biology 🌍 One Health

Overloaded

por Ginny Smith • 2021

Your brain is a chemical balancing act. Every emotion, memory, and choice depends on it.

3.95

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🧪 Neurochemistry 🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience 🧩 Memory Reconsolidation

Overloaded

Your brain is a chemical balancing act. Every emotion, memory, and choice depends on it.

por Ginny Smith 2021 336 páginas

3.95

294 avaliações

🧪 Neurochemistry 🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience 🧩 Memory Reconsolidation

ADHD - uante krefter

por Anders Hansen • 2017

ADHD traits drove human migration. Now they fuel creativity, hyperfocus, and entrepreneurship.

3.73

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💪 Adhd Strengths 🌈 Neurodiversity

ADHD - uante krefter

ADHD traits drove human migration. Now they fuel creativity, hyperfocus, and entrepreneurship.

por Anders Hansen 2017 199 páginas

3.73

1.000+ avaliações

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💪 Adhd Strengths 🌈 Neurodiversity

ADAPTED MIND

por Jerome H. Barkow • 1992

The mind is a Pleistocene toolkit. Culture is not what fills it but what it produces.

4.20

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Modular Mind 💕 Mate Selection

ADAPTED MIND

The mind is a Pleistocene toolkit. Culture is not what fills it but what it produces.

por Jerome H. Barkow 1992 679 páginas

4.20

265 avaliações

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Modular Mind 💕 Mate Selection

The Jealousy Cure

por Robert L. Leahy • 2018

Why jealousy hijacks your brain, and how to stop treating your partner like a suspect.

4.03

500+

🔒 Relationship Insecurity 🧠 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 🔗 Attachment Theory

The Jealousy Cure

Why jealousy hijacks your brain, and how to stop treating your partner like a suspect.

por Robert L. Leahy 2018 248 páginas

4.03

500+ avaliações

🔒 Relationship Insecurity 🧠 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 🔗 Attachment Theory

Darwin's Black Box

por Michael J. Behe • 1996

A mousetrap stops working when one part is missing. So do the molecular machines inside every cell.

3.78

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🧬 Molecular Biology 🧠 Intelligent Design ⚙️ Molecular Machines

Darwin's Black Box

A mousetrap stops working when one part is missing. So do the molecular machines inside every cell.

por Michael J. Behe 1996 329 páginas

3.78

4.000+ avaliações

🧬 Molecular Biology 🧠 Intelligent Design ⚙️ Molecular Machines

A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour

por Paul D. MacLean • 1974

You have three brains. The ancient one is in charge and cannot read this sentence.

4.29

🦎 Brain Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ❤️ Affective Neuroscience

A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour

You have three brains. The ancient one is in charge and cannot read this sentence.

por Paul D. MacLean 1974 165 páginas

4.29

7 avaliações

🦎 Brain Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ❤️ Affective Neuroscience

Breath

por James Nestor • 2025

Mouthbreathing ruins sleep, deforms faces, and shortens lives; the fix was hiding in plain sight.

4.02

🫁 Breathwork 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🧘 Yogic Breathing

Breath

Mouthbreathing ruins sleep, deforms faces, and shortens lives; the fix was hiding in plain sight.

por James Nestor 2025 368 páginas

4.02

51 avaliações

🫁 Breathwork 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🧘 Yogic Breathing

A History of the Human Brain

por Bret Stetka • 2021

Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.

4.00

379

🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience 👥 Social Brain

A History of the Human Brain

Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.

por Bret Stetka 2021 272 páginas

4.00

379 avaliações

🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience 👥 Social Brain

Metazoa / Other Minds

por Peter Godfrey-Smith • 2021

500 million neurons spread across eight arms: the alien mind on Earth.

4.10

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🌊 Marine Biology

Metazoa / Other Minds

500 million neurons spread across eight arms: the alien mind on Earth.

por Peter Godfrey-Smith 2021

4.10

20 avaliações

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🌊 Marine Biology

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