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• Evolutionary Psychology Online An international research information network and discussion group on brain, behaviour and evolution, with over 3000 members in 150 countries. The archive of over 14,000 items constitutes the world's largest database on evolutionary psychology and related fields.
  
  
• Human Genome Project Who owns the map of the human body?
  
• Chimpanzee Cultures A database of chimpanzee cultural behaviours.
  
• Slate Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• Identifying the accident prone Your personality could determine how likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
  
• Intelligence: Evolution and Uses Short essays on topics such as consciousness and the brain; how dreams and religion might have emerged; and the chances that human intelligence arose through evolution.
  
• Evolutionary psychology from Northern Light Electronic delivery of the latest newspaper and magazine articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• Salon Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• The original 'rock music' Many Stone Age relics lying in our museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
  
• The Ascent of the Mind A review of a book by William Calvin.
  
• Creationism and Evolutionary Psychology What is the Biblical perspective? A creationist broadcast on the evolutionary influence in psychology.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Evolutionary Theory, Paleoanthropology, and Adaptationism resources, with a primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara. Includes chapter abstracts from 'The Adapted Mind' (1992), 'Mapping the Mind' (1994), and 'Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology' (1998).
  
• Sex on the Brain A National Public Radio Interview with Deborah Blum.
  
• PubMed PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations. There are abstracts and full text of many papers in evolutionary psychology and related fields.
  
• The Savanna Groves The Savanna Groves is an online forum set up to accommodate an informal discussion of evolutionary psychology and related topics (such as evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary biology).
  
• Psychology, Culture, and Evolution Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, links to cultural-historical psychology, and links to articles about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality.
  
• Sexual selection and the mind A talk with Geoffrey Miller at The Edge.
  
• Inside the Animal Mind A superb website on animal intelligence.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Challenges the Current Social Sciences This article attempts to describe evolutionary psychology and the challenge it poses to traditional social science, and then discusses opportunities evolutionary psychology opens for Christian apologetics.
  
• Koen DePryck Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.
  
• Evolution (Richard Dawkins) A twenty-five minute radio interview with Richard Dawkins.
  
• Anthro.Net: Anthropology and Archaeology Anthro.Net is a Free Professional Research Service for Anthropologists and Archaeologists.
  
• How chimps develop and share sophisticated behaviors NPR audio article.
  
• A tutorial on evolutionary psychology PDF by Edward Hagen of UCSB.
  
• New Statesman Articles on evolutionary psychology and related subjects.
  
• Neanderthal Web covering the story of the rise and fall of one of the most successful human species that ever lived. A species that survived for over a quarter of a million years, living through and adapting to the most violent extremes of climate. A species that thrived - until modern man came along.
  
• Enter Evolution: Theory and History These exhibits trace evolutionary thought as it has developed over time, pausing to ponder the contributions of scientists and thinkers including Aristotle, Darwin, Wallace, and many others.
  
• Emotions and Disease The U.S. National Library of Medicine has mounted an online version of an exhibition which the library's History of Medicine Division produced "live" from November 16, 1996 to May 1, 1997 in conjunction with the Third International Congress of the International Society for Neuroimmunomodulation, held at the National Institutes of Health.
  
• Beauty Worlds: The Culture of Beauty All about beauty in nature and cultures past and present with informative articles on body image, fashion, cosmetics, eating disorders and much more from the viewpoints of evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis.
  
• Harvard Dept of MCB - Biology Links A very thorough collection of biology links.
  
• Earliest evidence of art found Archaeologists uncover evidence that early humans used paint for aesthetic purposes far earlier than previously thought.
  
• Science of Matriarchy Science of Matriarchy hosted by Artemis Creations Publishing for the Matriarch's Way Journal Project. Books, papers, articles, images, essays, feme dominance, male submission, feme supremacy, evolutionary science, sex and reproduction, myth, free ebook.
  
• TIME Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• Egroups : evolutionary-psychology Discussion group and archive.
  
• Ancient Cannibalism A report in Nature may settle once and for all a contentious debate in the world of anthropology.
  
• The Evolutionary Models in Social Science (EMSS) Web Bibliography A very useful web bibliography.
  
• Perspectives A discussion of Patrick Tierney's 'Darkness in El Dorado'.
  
• The biology of humour Brain scans show that puns and other types of joke are deciphered in different parts of the brain.
  
• Are Men Irrelevant? NPR audio discussion between Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Author, 'The Decline of Males' and Ronald Levant Dean and Professor, Center for Psychological Studies NOVA Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Author, Masculinity Reconstructed; Changing the Rules of 'Manhood-At Work, in Relationships, and in Family Life'.
  
• Race, Genes and Anthropology Full text articles and links.
  
• Human Evolution-UCSB 3D gallery of modern primate relatives and fossil ancestors of humans. This gallery contains five modern primate crania, and five fossil crania.
  
• Boxmind Superb online video lecture series featuring Steven Pinker, John Searle, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and others.
  
• Flat-faced man is puzzle Scientists unearth fossil remains of a human-like creature that looks set to blur still further the already murky picture of man's evolution.
  
• Evolution and Higher Cognition A fascinating archive of papers from theorists at the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology.
  
• Unlocking the brain's potential Scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius, a BBC documentary shows.
  
• Psychological Anthropology An Introduction to Psychological Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Human Mind.
  
• BBC Evolution Weekend: the Darwin Debate Melvyn Bragg chaired a debate on the significance of evolution theory on human society.
  
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference information. It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology at The Scientific World Electronic delivery of the latest papers and articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• Looking at chimpanzees ... Information about research on the Arnhem Zoo chimpanzee colony, the Family of Chimps and the most powerful chimpanzee of the Netherlands by Otto Adang.
  
• Evolution and Psychology Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism linking Directed Mutation to the Baldwin Effect. How Psychology colours perception of natural realities.
  
• Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain by Calvin and Bickerton. Conversations between a neurobiologist and a linguist cover the issues relating to what enabled structured language to emerge from protolanguage. This may have also enhanced the intelligence and planning skills of early humans.
  
• Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man Information about and from Andrew Brown's book on current debates between the Dawkinsians and the Gouldians over Dawkins' concept of the "selfish gene" and related matters.
  
• Discovery Institute's "Wedge project" Circulates Online A recently-circulated position paper of The Center for the Renewal of Science & Culture (CRSC) reveals an ambitious plan to replace the current naturalistic methodology of science with a theistic alternative called "intelligent design".
  
• Evolutionary Psychology The study of how our minds have evolved, and the traces left by that evolution.
  
• The Feeling of What Happens NPR audio interview with neurologist Antonio Damasio.
  
• The Archive for Sexology The Archive for Sexology at the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin provides historical resources, a dictionary, online library, and links to other resources in sexology.
  
• Jack Parsons Home Page Comprehensive coverage of the scholarly work of the writer, lecturer, & consultant on population, development, & related social, political, & ethical problems.
  
• Synaesthesia Scientists are working to understand just how sensations are experienced and interpreted.
  
• The Science of Sleep Harvard researchers recently identified a "slumber switch" that tells us when to go to sleep. But why do we even need sleep? A discussion hosted by Science Friday.
  
• Tomorrow's World - Stories Evolutionary psychology explains why humans are attracted to verbally skilled partners.
  
• CogNet MIT's electronic community for scholarly research in the cognitive and brain sciences.
  
• UK Memes Central Discussion groups, journals, and other resources.
  
• Bio-Feminism Web Resources A collection of resources compiled by Time.
  
• Pinker on 'The Language Instinct' NPR audio interview.
  
• What is Evolutionary Psychology? A useful tutorial on the basics.
  
• Free Darwinian Ebooks Classic texts by Darwin and others in Microsoft Reader format.
  
• Scopes Trial 75th Anniversary A discussion on the history of the Scopes trial, and at its effects on the nation, and about how evolution should be dealt with in schools today.
  
• When babies 'see' Babies start to see complex objects in the same way as adults at the age of seven months, according to new research.
  
• MFTSource Theory: Evolutionary Psychology MFTSource.com Theory Page on Evolutionary Psychology organizes useful clinical resources for working from this framework on a variety of issues and diagnoses.
  
• The human species: our evolution and future The human species in ecological perspective. A useful collection of links.
  
• This is London Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• Teaching the evolution teachers A scheme is set up to improve how the theory of evolution is taught in the United States and Canada.
  
• MendelWeb An educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.
  
• Human evolution Humans and chimpanzees are more closely related to each other than either are to gorillas.
  
• Nature/Nurture Debate Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.
  
• Mendel then...and now Science Friday traces the work of the monk in the garden through the generations.
  
• Frank Sulloway Audio interview with the visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, author of 'Born to Rebel'.
  
• Nerve.com Online magazine on sexuality.
  
• Internet Resources for Psychology, King Alfred's College Internet Resources for Psychology, including evolutionary psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology.
  
• EVOpsy.ORG : Le Portail Evolutionniste A French site on evolutionary psychology.
  
• The Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood - FHA Biological explanation of human nature, specifically biological exploration of the human condition, humans' capacity for good and evil.
  
• Of mice and men Discussion of genetic determinism.
  
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  
• Songbird shows how evolution works Himalayan songbirds show how one species can evolve into two.
  
• Eugenie Scott vs. Ken Ham A debate on the teaching of evolution.
  
• Margaret Hagen Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
  
• The Role of the Skeptic A discussion including Eugenie Scott.
  
• Neuroguide.com - Neurosciences on the Internet Neurosciences on the Internet contains a searchable and browsable index of neuroscience resources available on the World Wide Web and other parts of the Internet. Neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and information on human neurological diseases are covered.
  
• Decision Making A discussion on the psychology of making the right call.
  
• Frans de Waal An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
  
• Secrets of the brain The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
  
• The Emotion Project at King's College London Details of a three-year research project based in the Philosophy Department at King's College London, investigating the evolution of the emotions. Also contains details of international conference on emotion, evolution and rationality to be held at King's on 27-28 April 2002 (speakers include Antonio Damasio and Jon Elster).
  
• Archives of ETHOLOGY@SEGATE.SUNET.SE Archives of the ethology discussion group.
  
• Francis Fukyama Ray Suarez in a conversation with the controversial author and political scientist.
  
• Helen Fisher A biography of the Rutgers anthropologist.
  
• Intraspecific Exploitative Mimicry in Humans Humans have evolved to rely very heavily on cooperation with conspecifics. This web page presents the best possible explanation for this complex phenomenon.
  
• Online Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin The online calendar is a catalogue, with summaries, of all the letters to and from Charles Darwin known to the Project, the full texts of which are being published in the volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
  
• Evolution & Cognition Research The Konrad Lorenz Institute's website includes details of research and publications.
  
• Neuroscience for Kids Intended for elementary and secondary school students and teachers who are interested in learning more about the nervous system and brain. Hands on activities, experiments, information for all grade levels.
  
• The Evolutionary Psychology FAQ Answers to frequently asked questions about evolutionary psychology.
  
• Behavioural genetics to get public scrutiny The public is to be asked how scientists should investigate the possible link between genes and behaviour.
  
• PsycINFO Direct Database Instructions An abstract database covering the professional literature in psychology and related fields. Individuals can purchase access to over 1.5 million abstracts for a 24-hour period for $9.95
  
• Will Wilkinson / Tools / Research / Evolutionary Psychology A short collection of links.
  
• Human Genome Project Where does the push to sequence the human genome stand, and what's the outlook for the near future? And what will knowing the genome be able to tell us? A genetics update on this hour of Science Friday.
  
• shufflebrain Quest for the biology of the mind. An interesting collection of popular articles and links on the human brain.
  
• 'Oldest' ape-man fossils revealed A team of scientists unveil the remains of an ape-man said to be six million years old - twice the age of the oldest known so far.
  
• Dr. Leda Cosmides and Dr. John Tooby, UCSB Has Natural Selection Shaped How Humans Reason? An audio lecture.
  
• Psychology and Mental Health Information from PsychNet UK Psychology and mental health web links. The PsychNet-UK directory is designed for psychologists, counsellors, therapists, students or those seeking information concerning mental health matters.
  
• What makes a good rumour? A rumour spread by a small radio station saw UK motorists trying to beat a phantom fuel blockade. What makes a rumour so successful?
  
• Evolutionary Theory Entry at the Prinicpia Cybernetica.
  
• Cloning humans: Can it really be done? Dr David Whitehouse, answers some questions about cloning and whether the technology can be made to work in humans.
  
• Brain learns while sleeping Scientists working in Britain and Belgium say they've discovered what appears to be one of the most important functions of sleep.
  
• Boy or Girl? Predict the sex of your baby Will you have a boy or a girl? Do the on-line test. The site includes a list of publications, a book review, and biography of Valerie Grant.
  
• The Evolutionary Psychology of Beauty Synthetic beauties automorphed from 10 American females and 10 Japanese with a program developed by us which can create prototypes, analyze skin surfaces, symmetry and the complexity of almost any stimulus.
  
• Origins of Language When did we first start talking and how did language evolve over the millenniums into the diverse form of communication it is today? An audio debate.
  
• Encyclopedia of Psychology - Psychology Websites The Encyclopedia of Psychology is a collection of links to many areas of psychology. Our intent is to offer the best available sites organized to further the understanding of Psychology as a science.
  
• PsyBC: Online Continuing Education PsyBC produces online CE Seminars, Study Groups, and Symposia for mental health counselors, social workers, MFCC's, LCSW's, and psychologists.
  
• Esther Sternberg Audio interview on NPR about the book The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions in which Sternberg looks at how researchers have uncovered the connection between mind and body.
  
• Skeptic's Dictionary: evolutionary psychology An ill-informed critique of the field.
  
• Brain region for understanding minds Researchers in Canada identify the part of the brain that helps us understand the thoughts of other people.
  
• Personality and Change A discussion on the stability of personality.
  
• Richard Wrangham Audio interview with the Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book 'Demonic Males' popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior.
  
• Cannibal Part of human behaviour since mans earliest incarnation, and still persists today in some parts of the world. Delicious site on a controversial topic.
  
• Walter J. Freeman Audio interview with the author and professor of Neurobiology at the University of California at Berkeley.
  
• Evolutionary Perspectives on the Behavior of Humans and Other Primates Living Links is a center for the study of ape and human evolution at Emory University and the Yerkes Primate Center. Through behavioral, neurological, and genetic research on great apes - 'living links' to our past - we look to illuminate human evolution.
  
• Neuropsychology Central A neuropsychology information meta-source.
  
• Memes Susan Blackmore, Robert Wright, and Richard Dawkins discuss memes on US National Public Radio.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Papers on Evolutionary Psychology.
  
• The World of Richard Dawkins An excellent overview of Dawkins' work including the full text of numerous articles.
  
• The Human Nature Daily Review An indispensable guide to developments in brain and behavioural sciences - updated daily.
  
• Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses Replicators are the fundamental units of any process of natural selection. They were first defined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as any entities of which copies are made. The concept of replicators has diverse applications in a variety of areas, including biology, sociology, linguistics, and philosophy.
  
• Stress and Disease Audio discussion with Robert Sapolsky on the biology of stress.
  
• Evolutionary psychology A comprehensive evolutionary psychology must be able to deal with our future psychological evolution as well as our past. This paper begins the extension of evolutionary psychology to our future evolution.
  
• A Conversation with James D. Watson As the race to decode the human genome continues to drive forward, Science Friday talks to James D. Watson, the first president of the NIH's National Center for Human Genome Research.
  
• Monkey Math What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
  
• The Leakey Legacy A discussion featuring Virginia Morrell, author of Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings.
  
• New York Review of Books Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• 'Origins of Communication' by Dorothy Cheney Video presentation by an authority on behavior, communication, and cognition of monkeys and apes, with a focus on the similarities and differences between human and primate communication.
  
• Boxing clever Great claims were being made for a new website showing off some of the world's biggest brains. But how useful is what they say?
  
• Anatomy of Disgust The Channel 4 series, Anatomy of Disgust, explores that response and the uses positive and negative to which it can be put.
  
• Doubting Thomas, "The Wedge" The Wedge: A Christian Plan to Overthrow Modern Science?
  
• New neurons Scientists at Princeton University have produced a research finding that goes counter to long-held wisdom about the brain. They discovered that new neurons are continually being added to the brains of adult monkeys, even to parts of the brain responsible for very high-level functioning.
  
• Primate Handedness and Brain Lateralization Resources compiled by M.K. Holder.
  
• Climate Change and Civilization Collapse National Geographic Society covers the story.
  
• An evolutionary psychology-based view of the 1976 action movie Sky Riders The 1976 action movie Sky Riders was hang gliding's only major movie. This web page is part of a hang gliding history site, but its viewpoint is after a quarter century of evolutionary psychology.
  
• Darwinian Evolution and Human History The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio Three in association with the course, 'Science and Belief: Darwin to Einstein', 1980.
  
• Stephen Jay Gould An extensive site on Gould's writings with many articles, reviews, and audio interviews.
  
• Evolutionary explanations of human behaviour A quiz.
  
• Aungerweb Robert Aunger's comprehensive guide to memes and memetics.
  
• Human Origins Update The recent discovery of 10,000-year-old rock paintings in a Brazilian cave has led scientists to question how early humans populated the Americas and what they did for a living. A discussion with Anna Roosevelt and Richard Klein.
  
• 'Origins of War' by Richard Wrangham Video presentation by a scientist who has has conducted extensive field research on chimpanzees and other mammals. He is widely respected, having received a number of fellowships and awards including the Royal Anthropological Institute Rivers Medal, and is quickly becoming one of the foremost field researchers and primatologists of our time.
  
• Discovery Channel: Stone Ages Discovery.com feature highlights prehistoric human life, with stone age interactives, games, galleries and latest news about human evolution.
  
• The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy Wwb site of the debate between Sue Scott, Kenan Malik, Rita Carter and Christopher Badcock. There are useful links and contact information.
  
• Neanderthal Discovery.com feature explores the lives of Neanderthals; includes video gallery and audio e-cards.
  
• Modeling Early Hominids Ape Men and Analogs - 40 years of Hominid Models.
  
• Baboon key to human stress The stresses and strains that afflict humans are evident in baboon societies - as are the long-term health effects.
  
• The Economist Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• The Undiscovered Mind A conversation with John Horgan on his dismissive views of contemporary research.
  
• Human Culture, Human Mind A discussion about the minds of innovators and whether technological advances are a mixed blessing featuring Howard Gardner and Robert Ornstein.
  
• John McCrone This web site offers an informal (no maths, minimal jargon) jumping off point into the latest frontier in mind science - a dynamical view of the brain and consciousness.
  
• Talkin' 'bout my evolution Dave Hill on the "new black of science fashion".
  
• Depression, part of the human design A guide on how to "manage the tribe".
  
• The Norms and Preferences Network The Preferences Network is an interdisciplinary group headed by Herbert Gintis, an economist and Professor at the University Massachusetts, and Robert Boyd, an anthropologist and Professor at UCLA. There are working papers and internet resources here.
  
• Pinker and the Brain Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the evolutionary origins of language and behavior while keeping his detractors at bay.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology: An Elegant Solution Evolutionary Psychology is a relatively new approach that treats the human mind as a product of evolution. According to EP, the human mind consists of mental modules that, like the body's organs, evolved to handle specific adaptive problems.
  
• Matt Ridley: The Evolution of a Darwinian Article on 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters'.
  
• Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution Edited by ANDREW LOCK Massey University, Palmerston
  
• The Politics of Evolution Ray Suarez and guests to discuss the politics of teaching evolution on NPR.
  
• Historical Information about Animal Cognition Database of important scientists in the early development of comparative cognition.
  
• The Descent of Man A well-designed site covering the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
  
• An Anthropologist on Mars A conversation with well-known neurologist Oliver Sacks.
  
• Learning and Dreaming A Science Friday audio discussion on the science of dreaming featuring Robert Stickgold and Matthew Wilson.
  
• 'Origins of Peace' by Frans de Waal Video presentation by the Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University and the C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Department of Psychology, Emory University. Dr. de Waal is a widely known and published expert in the field of primate behavior. He is the author of four best selling books including the recent 'Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape' and 'Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes'.
  
• The Psychedelic Library Psychopharmacological substances as a window into human psychological processes. Full text of a number of articles.
  
• Brain Development Marion Diamond and others on how genes and the environment work together to shape the young developing brain.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Starting point for those interested in Evolutionary Psychology with links and news.
  
• CRSC "Wedge Strategy" Document Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture allegedly seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies, according to this document widely circulated on the web.
  
• Human Origins Recent discoveries by fossil scientists may provide the earliest documented evidence of toolmaking, and push the origin of homo sapiens back more than 400,000 years. A discussion featuring Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar.
  
• Evolution and Human Adaptation Program Work by faculty and students at the University of Michigan in the area of evolution and human behavior, including work relevant to Darwinian medicine
  
• Language gene NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.
  
• Scientists 'locate' intelligence British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.
  
• Consciousness Radio debate between Dennett, Chalmers, and Koch.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology at Cogweb A very detailed, searchable site.
  
• In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.
  
• William Calvin Audio interview with the theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington.
  
• Evolution's Voyage Evolutionary Psychology For The Common Person. Includes articles, book reviews and reading lists.
  
• Human evolution - fossils, skulls and science education kits An excellent resource for teaching human origins.
  
• No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the genius sperm-bank donors turn out?  by David Plotz The strange story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine.
  
• Evolutionary cybernetics A guide.
  
• An honour to die for The Darwin Awards have spawned a host of imitators, urban myths and tall tales. The winner is the person judged to have caused their death in the most stupid way during the past year.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology An helpful outline of a course on evolutionary psychology.
  
• Women's choice of men goes in cycles Women are attracted to more hunky men at the most fertile time of their menstrual cycle - this may be part of an evolutionary explanation of infidelity.
  
• 'Origins of Human Language' by Steven Pinker Video presentation by the Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT and one of the world's leading evolutionary psychologists. An expert in the field of linguistic theory, Dr. Pinker has done extensive research on language acquisition and development. Both controversial and thought provoking, two of his recent books, 'How the Mind Works' and 'The Language Instinct', were NY Times bestsellers.
  
• Eugenie Scott on Creationism Kansas State University present the Landon Lecture series both in RealAudio format and in transcripts.
  
• World Database of Happiness A continuous register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  
• A finger on sexuality Finger length may be an indication of sexual orientation, a study by Marc Breedlove has shown.
  
• Physiological psychology The award winning SALMON web site which contains support material for courses taught by Dr Paul Kenyon in the Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth , Devon, UK.
  
• So you think you're logical? An online implementation of one of the most famous experiments in social/evolutionary psychology.
  
• Biology of Language Steven Pinker and Myrna Gopnik in a Science Friday audio discussion.
  
• Designer Babies BBC Horizon web site.
  
• Wells-Pigliucci debate online in Real Video A debate between Jonathan Wells, of the creationist Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, and evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci.
  
• 'Origins of Culture' by William McGrew Video presentation. McGrew has written several books including, 'Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution' and 'Tool-use by free-ranging chimpanzees: The extent of diversity'.
  
• The Art of Dementia Are people with artistic ability born or made?
  
• Skull Wars David Hurst Thomas and others discuss the Kennewick Man controversy.
  
• Artificial Culture and Computational Anthropology Experiments in synthetic anthropology. A large collection of links and resources.
  
• Europe's seven female founders New genetic research has shown that everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women.
  
• Lingua Franca Articles on evolutionary psychology.
  
• BBC Online - Apeman A splendid site on the BBC series.
  
• The Journal of Mundane Behavior Radio interview with the founder.
  
• Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures How much do our genes determine our behavior? Is there such a thing as "genetic destiny?" And is evolution merely a biological process, or is it a cultural process as well?
  
• UnCover Reveal An automated current awareness service that delivers the table of contents of your favorite journals directly to your e-mail box. With Reveal, you can also create search strategies for your favorite topics. Keyword or author searches result in a list of individual article citations. Articles may be ordered from UnCover by reply e-mail or by print the list and faxing the order to UnCover.
  
• The Genetics of Complex Traits Science Friday discussion on the genetics of complex traits.
  
• Napoleon Chagnon responds to Darkness in El Dorado The allegations of misconduct among the Yanomamo by Napoleon Chagnon and James Neel are false, as these detailed documents demonstrate.
  
• X chromosome Radio discussion on the alleged assumptions of evolutionary psychology featuring Natalie Angier Author, 'Woman: An Intimate Geography' and Meredith Small Author, 'Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent' (Anchor Books) Professor, Anthropology Cornell University Ithaca, New York.
  
• Grandmothers' Role in Evolution A study in the February 1998 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides an alternative to the theory that evolutionary success of humans is the result of male behavior.
  
• Flight from Science and Reason Paul Gross and colleagues take issue with what they see as a trend toward irrationalism in in science and academia.
  
• Orlando Patterson Audio interview with the historical sociologist and Professor at Harvard University. He won the 1991 National Book Award for Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, appears regularly in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Republic. He also served as special adviser for social policy and development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley during the 1970's, was on the faculty at the London School of Economics, and has published three novels.
  
• Biology of Aggression An audio discussion of the role of genes in aggression.
  
• Evolution and Cognition An interdisciplinary forum devoted to all aspects of research on cognition in animals and humans.
  
• Andrew Brown on Evolutionary Psychology Online A review in Salon.
  
• The Science of Beauty Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad discuss the science of beauty.
  
• Animal Behavior, Comparative Psychology and Ethology Resources Resources on animal behavior, comparative psychology and ethology; this class of behavioral adaptations are known as instincts that typically evolve over many generations.
  
• Ethology and Evolution on the Web A collection of resources for Ethology, Evolutionary Psychology, General Psychology, Cultural Evolution and Memetics. Includes links to research institutions, electronic journals, and professional societies.
  
• A Discussion with Matt Ridley Audio interview - question and answer session.
  
• Asteroids 'affected human evolution' The ascent of mankind could have been influenced by frequent cosmic catastrophes, say researchers.
  
• Genetics, Ethics and Theology Audio resources on genetics, ethics and theology.
  
• The Human Face John Cleese and Liz Hurley discover some of the mysteries hidden behind the mask of the human face.
  
• Early Hominids A research team digging in a Pleistocene cave site in Atapuerca, Spain has identified a new species of hominid -- one that they believe may be the common ancestor of both modern humans and our extinct cousins, the Neanderthals. The new species, named Homo antecessor, is thought to have lived some 800,000 years ago, yet has a face that looks strikingly similar to modern humans.
  
• Film Archive of Human Ethology Archives of Films, Videos and photographies on the Ethology of Humans comparing different cultures
  
• Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Audio conversations with the noted primatologist.
  
• An Essay on Evolutionary Psychology An interesting summary of some of the issues.
  
• Pinker on 'How the Mind Works' NPR audio interview.
  
• The Qualitative Genesis of all Principal Forms of Cognition The development of all main forms of cognition up to inspiration and creativity. English/Deutsch.
  
• Human-Nature.com "Writings and discussions on history, philosophy and social studies in the human sciences: Darwinian scholarship; evolutionary psychology, sociobiology and debates about them; cognitive psychology; neuropsychology, modularity; narrative approaches; hermeneutics; verstehen; biography and autobiography; behavioural genetics; psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches; and so on." Edited by Robert M. Young and Ian Pitchford.
  
• Psych Web Russ Dewey's exhaustive compilation of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology.
  
• Jared Diamond An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.
  
• Evolutionary psychology NPR radio discussion on the assumption that evolutionary psychology claims 'that women have evolved physically and psychologically to be weaker, less assertive, and monogamous, while men are naturally stronger, aggressive, and promiscuous".
  
• Did the caveman teach us to queue? The cult of evolutionary psychology has received another boost with the theory we were born to queue. But can caveman behaviour really explain everything we do?
  
• Pheromones Pheromone-receptor genes have been detected before in mice, however, the discovery of the V1RL1 gene is the first to be reported in humans. Science Friday investigates.
  
• Brain Plasticity, Language Processing and Reading Information at the Society for Neuroscience website.
  
• Handy clues to ascent of Man The precision grip of early modern humans may have allowed them to triumph over Neanderthals, new research suggests.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby An invaluable primer written by two of the founders of the field.
  
• Mindship Video interviews with Chris Frith, Karl Grammer, John Casti and many others.