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Anitra Freeman's "Human Biological and Cultural Evolution"

Books that give insight into who we are today.
1. The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Darwin
  
2. Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection
by Frank Ryan
  
3. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
  
4. The Ascent of Man
by Jacob Bronowski
  
5. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
by Pascal Boyer
  
6. The MORAL SENSE
by James Q. Wilson
  
7. The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
by Michael Shermer
  
8. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by Robert Wright
  
9. The Ethical Brain
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
  
10. Evolutionary Origins of Morality : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives  
11. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
by Edward O. Wilson
  
12. The Triumph of Sociobiology
by John Alcock
  
13. Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals (Oxford Science Publications)  
14. Peacemaking among Primates
by Frans B. M. de Waal
  
15. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
by Frans B. M. de Waal
  
16. Chimpanzee Cultures: With a Foreword by Jane Goodall  
17. Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution
by Richard Byrne
  
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 Ecological Imperialism: the Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900
by Alfred Crosby
  
19. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
20. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
  
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Created by Anitra Freeman on Dec 11, 2006.