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• Darwin's Worms Michael Brearley reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
  
• So much for genes Adrian Woolfson reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• Genetic determinism Michael T. Ghiselin reviews 'Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature' by Gabriel Dover.
  
• Software Etc George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
  
• Rape as an adaptation Jerry Coyne and Andrew Berry review 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.
  
• Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips First chapter.
  
• Evolution Between the Ears George Johnson reviews 'Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind' by Gerald M. Edelman.
  
• Slaves to logic John Naughton reviews 'The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing' by Martin Davis.
  
• Rattling the Cage by Steven M. Wise First chapter.
  
• A Universe of Consciousness - Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Universe of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi.
  
• The evolving theory of evolution Gunther S. Stent reviews 'The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species' by Steven M. Stanley.
  
• Sleepthinking Hans Christian von Baeyer reviews 'The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes Its Mind' by J. Allan Hobson.
  
• Genes are not so smart David Papineau reviews 'How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity' by Brian Goodwin.
  
• Metapsychology Book Reviews on Evolutionary Psychology Intelligent reviews of interesting books on evolutionary psychology.
  
• The Chimps' Day in Court Cass R. Sunstein reviews 'Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals' by Steven M. Wise.
  
• A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon First chapter.
  
• Even Baboons Get the Blues Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
  
• History of Neuroscience Paul Crichton reviews 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
  
• Women Behaving Badly Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.
  
• Truth by Felipe Fernández-Armesto First Chapter.
  
• Speak, Monkey George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
  
• And Zebra Stripes and Chocolate Bars Steven Rose reviews 'Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes' by Stephen Jay Gould.
  
• History Miranda Seymour reviews 'Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by James A Secord.
  
• Down the Hatch Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
  
• Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones First chapter.
  
• Mind your language Nicholas Lazard reviews 'Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language' by Steven Pinker.
  
• The Editors Recommend Review of Niles Eldredge's 'The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism'.
  
• Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins A review and a link to other reviews of 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.
  
• Map of Life Lee M. Silver reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.
  
• Heritable traits of a grandfather W. F. Bynum reviews 'Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement' by Desmond King-Hele.
  
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny A review of Robert Wright's book by David Sloan Wilson.
  
• What Really Goes On in There George Johnson reviews 'Consciousness Explained' by Daniel C. Dennett.
  
• Well Preserved for His Age David Papineau reviews 'Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier' by Brenda Fowler
  
• Can genes really explain why we shop? John Cornwell reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin' edited by Hilary and Steven Rose.
  
• The Kinder, Gentler Military by Stephanie Gutmann First chapter.
  
• Darwin's reflections on the death of a child Lisa Jardine reviews 'Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution' by Randal Keynes.
  
• Rafting Through Evolution Ricki Lewis reviews 'The River that Flows Uphill: A Journey From the Big Bang to the Big Brain' by William H. Calvin.
  
• Do Animals Have Culture? Meredith Small reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
  
• The Homesexual Pedigree Natalie Angier reviews 'The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior' by Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland.
  
• The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' by Robert Burton.
  
• Taboo by Jon Entine First chapter.
  
• Books of the Times Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.
  
• 'How The Mind Works' by Stephen Pinker Review by John Sloss.
  
• Make War, Not Nice! Carol Gilligan reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann
  
• The ethics of the sand pile Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Ubiquity: the science of history . . . or why the world is simpler than we think' by Mark Buchanan.
  
• Genes 'R' Us Derek Bickerton reviews 'Mood Genes: Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression' by Samuel H. Barondes and 'Born that Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality' by William Wright.
  
• The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Eller First chapter.
  
• Bad Genes Natalie Angier ireviews 'Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time - The Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body' by Jerry E. Bishop and Michael Waldholz.
  
• Genes, the author argues, are merely bit players in the game of life Anne Magurran reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• A book that rocked the Victorian world David Oldroyd on 'Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by James A.Secord.
  
• What is it like to be an animal? Ralph Adolphs reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
  
• Evolving Questions John Durant reviews 'Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar' by John C. Greene.
  
• Unnatural selection Robin McKie reviews 'Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution' by Randal Keynes.
  
• Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney First chapter.
  
• The Monk in the Garden by Robin Marantz Henig First chapter.
  
• Believe It or Not Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
  
• What your brain is up to Stuart Sutherland reviews 'The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness' by Gerald M. Edelman.
  
• To the core of consciousness Ray Dolan reviews 'A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination/ Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination' by Gerald Edelman & Giulio Tononi.
  
• Stupid Pet Tricks James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
  
• Young Darwin in Love, and at Work Stephen Jay Gould reviews 'The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume One: 1821-1836' edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith.
  
• Rape Hilary Rose reviews 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer.
  
• Feeling our way Simon Baron-Cohen reviews 'Emotion: The Science of Sentiment' by Dylan Evans.
  
• The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon First chapter.
  
• A fantasia of biological feminism Olivia Judson on 'Woman: An Intimate Geography' by Natalie Angier and 'Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science is Redefining What Makes Us Female' by Dianne Hales.
  
• Boys to Men Robert Coles reviews 'The War Against Boys : How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men' by Christina Hoff Sommers and 'Real Boys' Voices' by William S. Pollack .
  
• Why Boys Will Be Boys Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.
  
• The Man Who Found the Missing Link by Pat Shipman First chapter.
  
• Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza First chapter.
  
• Buttering Up Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.
  
• A brilliant dissection of the brain Semir Zeki reviews 'An Anatomy of Thought' by Ian Glynn.
  
• Human Diversity (Richard Lewontin) A review by Danny Yee of Lewontin's introduction to human genetics and human biology.
  
• Genetics Jonathan A. Epstein reviews 'Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics' by Philip R. Reilly.
  
• Apocalyptic Optimism Review of 'Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species' by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.
  
• Sex, Science and the Vanity of the Species Joyce Appleby reviews 'Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes and the Course of History' By Robert S. McElvaine.
  
• The Mechanics of the Soul Marcia Bartusiak reviews' How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now' by William H. Calvin.
  
• 'Wilson,' They Said, 'Your All Wet!' Helen Fisher reviews 'Naturalist' by Edward O. Wilson.
  
• Life After God Steven Marcus reviews 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
  
• All About Evil Steven Pinker reviews 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century' by Jonathan Glover.
  
• The Joy of Fun Judith Viorst reviews 'The Pursuit of Pleasure' by Lionel Tiger.
  
• Lord of the Drosophilae Lewis Wolpert reviews 'Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior' by Jonathan Weiner.
  
• An Ape-Man Is Hard to Find John Noble Winford reviews 'The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right' by Pat Shipman.
  
• The humane genome project Geoffrey Carr reviews 'Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics' by Philip R Reilly.
  
• Don't Know Much Biology David Papineau reviews 'Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism' by Steven Rose.
  
• The Perversion of Darwinism Robert Wright reviews 'The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science' by Pat Shipman.
  
• Why Who Did What When Solomon W. Golomb reviews 'Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code' by Lily E. Kay.
  
• The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson First chapter.
  
• The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin.
  
• Darkness in El Dorado: Information and Links News, position statements, email, and other information on Patrick Tierney's book "Darkness in El Dorado".
  
• The human stain John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.
  
• Survival of the Rapist Frans B. M. de Waal reviews 'A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion' by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer
  
• Gaia Mary Midgley reviews 'Homage to Gaia: the life of an independent scientist' by James Lovelock.
  
• Why black will beat white at the Olympics Kenan Malik reviews 'Taboo: why black athletes dominate sports and why we're afraid to talk about it' by Jon Entine.
  
• How we feel Ray Dolan reviews 'Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind' by Leslie Brothers and 'What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories' by Paul E. Griffiths.
  
• Software for the Brain Nicholas Wade reviews 'Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness' by Daniel C. Dennett and 'The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory' by David J. Chalmers.
  
• Sociobiology Keith S. Harris reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
  
• No Job for a Woman Laura Shapiro reviews 'A History of the Wife' by marilyn Yalom.
  
• The gene is dead; long live the gene Jerry Coyne on 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• Celebrating blurry boundaries Steven Vogel reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
  
• Armchair moralising Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
  
• Swim Meet Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.
  
• Parallel tales of a changing brain Bradley T. Hyman reviews 'The Dying of Enoch Wallace: Life, Death and the Changing Brain' by Ira B. Black.
  
• Lessons of Fruit Flies, From the Finch's Friend Richard Bernstein reviews 'Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior' by Jonathan Weiner.
  
• Why it Pays to Dress Well Mark Ridley reviews 'The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection From Darwin to Today' by Helena Cronin.
  
• Not so crazy after all Dylan Evans reviews 'Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature' by Daniel Nettle.
  
• Genes, free will and intracranial musings David Hull reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
  
• Genome Terence Kealey reviews 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley.
  
• Carnal Knowledge Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.
  
• The gene genie Kenan Malik reviews 'A Monk and Two Peas: the story of Gregor Mendel and the discovery of genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
  
• The politics of the ninth day of creation Peter N. Goodfellow reviews 'Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA' by Kevin Davies.
  
• Buff and Ready Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.
  
• Burrow, Evolution and Society This review appeared in Cambridge Review 10 June 1967, pp. 409-11.
  
• Human violence Nicole Chardenet reviews 'Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence' by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson.
  
• Rapid Response Richard M. Restak reviews 'The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life' by By Joseph LeDoux.
  
• Singer in the Rain A review of Peter Singer's book 'A Darwinian Left'.
  
• Cancer Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
  
• Humanity by Jonathan Glover First chapter.
  
• Human genome Kenan Malik reviews 'The Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome' by Kevin Davies.
  
• The Agnostic in the Abbey I. Bernard Cohen reviews 'Darwin' by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.
  
• Brief Tragedies Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
  
• Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan First chapter.
  
• One gene at a time Melvin Konner reviews 'Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature' by Philip Kitcher.
  
• We are all contraptions Michael Ghiselin reviews 'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins.
  
• Yesterday's news Glenn McGee reviews 'Controlling Our Destinies: Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project' by Phillip R Sloan.
  
• Genes, Women, Equality Lisa S. Parker reviews 'Genes, Women, Equality' by Mary Briody Mahowald.
  
• Jacobson's Organ by Lyall Watson First chapter.
  
• Dolly part one: the end of the beginning in mammalian cloning? T Perry and T Wakayama review 'The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly' by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge.
  
• Paul Hoffman's book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Reviews from Nature.
  
• Alas, poor Darwin Geoffrey Miller reviews the critique of evolutionary psychology edited by Steven and Hilary Rose.
  
• Little Gray Cells Galen Strawson reviews 'The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World' by Colin McGinn.
  
• Speaking in too many tongues Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini on 'Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought' by Philip Lieberman.
  
• The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal First chapter.
  
• Neurobiology of stress Edward Marriott reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: Love Death and Baboons in East Africa' by Robert Sapolsky.
  
• Memoirs of a reluctant cult figure Crispin Tickell on 'Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist' by James Lovelock.
  
• Neuroscience Howard Gardner reviews 'What makes us think?' by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur.
  
• The Truth About Dogs by Stephen Budiansky First chapter.
  
• For the love of teaching Sally Temple reviews 'Development of the Nervous System' by Dan Harvey Sanes, Thomas A. Reh and William A. Harris.
  
• Birds and bees and neuronal circuits William B. Kristan reviews 'Behavioral Neurobiology: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behavior' by Thomas J. Carew.
  
• You Can Copy Off Me Robert Wright reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
  
• Natural Selections David Papineau reviews 'Revinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory' by Niles Eldredge, 'River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life' by Richard Dawkins and 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life' by Daniel C. Dennett.
  
• Cherishment by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard First chapter.
  
• A neurosurgeon probes the nature of pain Jerome Groopman reviews 'Why We Hurt : The Natural History of Pain' by Frank T. Vertosick Jr
  
• Dangerous thoughts... Richard A. Shweder reviews 'In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought' by Carl N. Degler.
  
• Darwin gets a makeover Professor Steve Jones has rewritten Darwin's 'Origin of Species', a book that contains ideas which are just as controversial today as they were 140 years ago.
  
• Darwinian Myths A review by Massimo Pigliucci.
  
• Debunking DNA Michael Barrett reviews 'Life Without Genes' by Adrian Woolfson.
  
• Tuned In, Turned On Lionel Tiger reviews 'Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History' by David Allyn.
  
• Mystery of Mysteries - Michael Ruse A review and a link to other reviews of 'Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?' by Michael Ruse.
  
• Alas Paul Higgs reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven P. R. Rose.
  
• Darwinian Soup W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
  
• Popular Neuroscience Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.
  
• Wedding bells and blues Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.
  
• Ultra-Darwinists think of humans as little more than genetic machines. Whatever happened to free will and reason? John Cornwell reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie' by Kenan Malik.
  
• Chemical Reactions George Johnson reviews 'Inside the Brain: Revolutionary Discoveries of How the Mind Works' b Ronald Kotulak.
  
• Weeping With Those Who Weep Claire Panosian reviews 'Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears' by Tom Lutz.
  
• On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim First chapter.
  
• How it all happened Mark Stoneking reviews 'Genes, Peoples, and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Mark Seielstad.
  
• To smack or not to smack Rachel Cusk reviews 'Paranoid Parenting' by Frank Furedi.
  
• He Was Not the Fittest Geoffrey Cowley reviews 'Charles Darwin: A New Life' by John Bowlby.
  
• The Dangerous Passion by David Buss First chapter.
  
• Another Branch of the Family W. Ford Doolittle reviews 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived' by Colin Tudge
  
• Ask Darwin's Grandma Fiona Cowie reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
  
• Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
  
• Longevity Howard Chertkow reviews 'The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging' by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
  
• Tackling Race and Sports Review of 'Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
  
• You've Got an Attitude Paul Mattick reviews 'On the Emotions' by Richard Wollheim.
  
• You're Too Kind by Richard Stengel First chapter.
  
• So, This Parrot Comes Into a Bar and Says . . . Bernd Heinrich reviews 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots' by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
  
• The emperor has some clothes Jochen Braun reviews 'The New Cognitive Neurosciences' edited by Michael Gazzaniga.
  
• Pitching it right Alison Jolly reviews 'Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters' by Jane Goodall and 'Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution' by Carole Jahme.
  
• Change of mind Samuel H. Barondes reviews 'Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel' by Candace B. Pert.
  
• Heartburn Courtney Weaver reviews 'The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex' by David M. Buss.
  
• Not an Inkling Jerry Coyne reviews 'Genome: Autobiography of a Species' by Matt Ridley.
  
• Human genome Robert S. Schwartz reviews 'Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA' by Kevin Davies.
  
• Selfish gene is offside Tom Wilkie reviews 'Dear Mr Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature' by Gabriel Dover.
  
• In the Heart, or in the Head? Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.
  
• Sex and sensibility David H. Skuse reviews 'The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together' by Eleanor E. Maccoby.
  
• The Sixth Sense Ann Finkbeiner reviews 'Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell' by Lyall Watson.
  
• Back to the Stone Age Erica Goode reviews 'Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts' by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
  
• Evolutionary psychopathology Trevor Turner reviews 'Prophets, Cults and Madness' by Anthony Stevens and John Price
  
• A Three-Billion-Year Memoir Review of 'Genome' by Matt Ridley.
  
• Neanderthals Need Not Apply Robert J. Richards reviews 'African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity' by Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie.
  
• Evolutionary psychology Keith S. Harris reviews 'Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach' by Steven J.C. Gaulin and Donald H. McBurney.
  
• Wag the Human James Gorman reviews 'Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Proclivities, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris' by Stephen Budiansky.
  
• The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism Jerry Fodor reviews 'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker and 'Evolution in Mind' by Henry Plotkin.
  
• Darwin wars Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
  
• Split Personality Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
  
• Limits of the Genetic Lexicon Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reviews 'The Century of the Gene' by Evelyn Fox Keller.
  
• Tool tests challenge chimpanzees Andrew Whiten on 'Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How The World Works' by Daniel J. Povinelli.
  
• The Gulf Between the Ears Paul Churchland reviews 'The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation' by John Horgan.
  
• The Darwinian Lie Edward Skidelsky reviews 'Divided Labours' by Kingsley Browne, and 'The Truth About Cinderella' by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson.
  
• Ideas about Life James L. Gould reviews 'The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance' by Ernst Mayr.
  
• A powerful leap from chaos Niall Ferguson reviews 'Ubiquity: Why the World Is Simpler Than We Think' by Mark Buchanan.
  
• Inventing allies in the sky Kenan Malik reviews 'Rocks of Ages: science and religion in the fullness of life' by Stephen Jay Gould.
  
• La Difference Jim Holt reviews 'The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World' by Helen Fisher.
  
• The lust for life Anthony Clare reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity' by David Horrobin.
  
• A Mind is not Described by Numbers June Goodfield reviews 'The Mismeasure of Man' by Stephen Jay Gould.
  
• The Way We Are Francis Fukuyama reviews 'Human Natures' by Paul Ehrlich.
  
• Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott First chapter.
  
• Review of Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind Online article by Daniel Dennett.
  
• Looking Good by Lynne Luciano First chapter.
  
• The Mating Mind by Geoffrey F. Miller First chapter.
  
• Rebel With a Cause Rachel P. Maines reviews 'Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey' by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
  
• Iceman by Brenda Fowler First chapter.
  
• Darwinizing psychology Andrew Whiten on 'The Evolution of Mind' edited by Denise Dellarosa Cummins and Colen Allen.
  
• One more imprinting review? Frank Sleutels & Denise P. Barlow review 'Genomic Imprinting: An Interdisciplinary Approach' by R Ohlsson.
  
• Goddess Theory Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory : Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller.
  
• Inside knowledge Andrew Whiten reviews 'Interpreting Minds: The Evolution of a Practice' by Radu Bogdan.
  
• All about Eve Abraham Verghese reviews 'Woman: An Intimate Geography' by Natalie Angier.
  
• Mental devices Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini reviews 'Evolution in Mind' by Henry Plotkin.
  
• Maternal Instinct Anne Magurran reviews 'Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection' by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
  
• The Alex Studies by Irene Maxine Pepperberg First chapter.
  
• The Language of Genes - Steve Jones A review and a link to other reviews of 'The Language of Genes' by Steve Jones.
  
• Branching Out Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
  
• Monkey See, Monkey Do John Gribbin reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
  
• She's Gotta Have It Karla Jay reviews 'Nymphomania: A History' by Carol Groneman.
  
• Thinking Deeply About Thinking and Having Fun, Too Christopher Lehman-Haupt reviews 'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker.
  
• Scary monsters Hugo Barnacle reviews 'Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature' by Kenan Malik.
  
• The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
  
• The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article Kuldip Dhiman reviews 'Emotion: The Science of Sentiment' by Dylan Evans.
  
• Laugh and the World Laughs with You Frans de Waal reviews 'Laughter: A Scientific Investigation' by Robert Provine.
  
• Woodpecker's Brain Survives, but Will Humans'? Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reviews 'The Diversity of Life' by Edward O. Wilson.
  
• X + Y = Z Natalie Angier reviews 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl' by John Colapinto.
  
• Evolution Between the Ears Stuart Sutherland reviews 'Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence' by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
  
• Nymphomania by Carol Groneman First chapter.
  
• Who Is at Home in Our Heads? Steven Rose reviews The Modular Brain: How New Discoveries in Neuroscience Are Answering Age-Old Questions About Memory, Free Will, Consciousness, and Personal Identity' by Richard M. Restak, 'Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language' by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann, and 'Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. By Antonio R. Damasio.
  
• Excuse me, sir, your name is the wrong colour Zoë Mullan reviews 'Synaesthesia: the strangest thing' by John Harrison.
  
• Beyond Viagra John Horgan reviews Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging' by Tom Kirkwood.
  
• New Germ Theory Julius Schachter reviews 'Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments' by Paul Ewald.
  
• Evolutionary psychology Muriel Egerton reviews 'Alas, poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
  
• The Chicken and the Egg, Together at Last Nicholas C. Spitzer reviews 'Topobiology: An Introduction to Molecular Embryology' by Gerald M. Edelman.
  
• Evolutionary Psychology Valerie Gray Hardcastle reviews 'The Mind's Past' by Michael gazzaniga.
  
• Everybody Into the Gene Pool John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
  
• Thumbs up for signal work Simon Baron-Cohen reviews 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' by Charles Darwin.
  
• Our Animals, Our Selves Robert Wright reviews 'Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism' by James Rachels.
  
• It's all just meat Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
  
• In the Region of Lost Minds John C. Marshall reviews 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales' by Oliver Sacks.
  
• The Prince of Peas Joe Cain reviews 'The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics' by Robin Marantz Henig.
  
• Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz First chapter.
  
• Victorian Sensation - James A. Secord A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Victorian Sensation' by James A. Secord.
  
• Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers - Colin Tudge A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers' by Colin Tudge.
  
• Her Way by Paula Kamen First chapter.
  
• They Dream of Genes Daniel Callahan reviews 'Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers' by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald.
  
• Flying in the face of science Jerome Boyd Maunsell reviews 'Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
  
• The First Sex by Helen Fisher First chapter.
  
• Nonzero by Robert Wright First chapter.
  
• Life beyond Darwinism Brain Appleyard reviews 'Science and Poetry' by Mary Midgley.
  
• The road to the code Jan Witkowski on 'Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA/The Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome' by Kevin Davies.
  
• The Mind Mystery Philip Kitcher reviews 'Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self' by John C. Eccles.
  
• A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.
  
• Why so cross? Thomas Nagel reviews 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins and 'The Pattern of Evolution' by Niles Eldredge.
  
• Legacy of a flying tamping iron Ian Glynn on 'An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage' by Malcolm Macmillan.
  
• Where Are We Headed? Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.
  
• The flower, the gene, the brain and the creative process Ariel Ruiz i Altaba reviews 'The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves' by E Coen.
  
• The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers First chapter.
  
• The Triple Helix - Richard Lewontin A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Triple Helix' by Richard Lewontin.
  
• All human life is here Vaclav Smil on 'Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect' by Paul R. Ehrlich.
  
• Lyme and punishment David Sharp reviews 'Mendel's Demon' by Mark Ridley.
  
• Is Our Culture in Our Genes? Richard M. Restak reviews 'Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind' by Charles J. Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson.
  
• A rust bowl Anthony Clare reviews 'Perfidious Man' by Will Self and David Gamble.
  
• The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge First chapter.
  
• Why and how we age George Martin reviews 'Time of Our Lives' by T B Kirkwood.
  
• Gone Haywire Michael E. Goldberg reviews 'Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind' by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee.
  
• Thinking the unthinkable Richard Gregory reviews 'The Origins of Creativity' edited by Karl H. Pfenninger and Valerie R. Shubik.
  
• Darkness Kenan Malik reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado: How scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon' by Patrick Tierney.
  
• A point of entry into genomics Peer Bork and Martijn Huynen review 'Genomes' by T A Brown.
  
• What Would Darwin Think? John Alcock reviews 'Dear Mr Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature' by Gabriel Dover.
  
• In search of unity Philip Clayton reviews 'Science and Poetry' by Mary Midgley.
  
• From Grunting to Grammar Paul Bloom reviews 'Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain' by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton.
  
• Darwin's dirty secret Review of 'A Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.
  
• Understanding It All Essay Review of C. D. Darlington, 'The Evolution of Man and Society'.
  
• From beehives to burrows, animal building sheds new light on biology Kurt Schwenk reviews 'The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures' by J. Scott Turner.
  
• Major Transitions in Evolution John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary look at a range of topics in evolutionary biology, from abiogenesis to the origins of societies and language.
  
• Don't Bring Home the Bacon J. B. Schneewind reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
  
• The counting-house called to account Steve Blinkhorn on 'How to Build a Mind' by Igor Aleksander.
  
• Planters vs. Weeders John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
  
• Talking About Wu Wei Stephen Wilson reviews 'Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart' by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard.
  
• The helix files Kevin Davies reviews 'A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society' by James D. Watson.
  
• Which Came First, Tall or Smart? John Noble Wilford reviews 'From Lucy to Language' by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar.
  
• The melting-pot that is ALife John L. Casti reviews 'Creation: Life and How to Make It' by Steve Grand.
  
• Real Boys' Voices by William S. Pollack with Todd Shuster First chapter.
  
• Whatever Turns You On Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller.
  
• Am I an insect? Jonathan Flint reviews 'Are We Hardwired? The Role of Genes in Human Behavior' by William R Clark & Michael Grunstein.
  
• Race Frank Furedi reviews 'The Problem of Race in the 21st Century' by Thomas C Holt.
  
• The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism and Environment A review by Deborah M. Gordon.
  
• You Can't Get There From Here Robert J. Richards reviews 'In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life' by Henry Gee.
  
• Defenders of the Truth A review by Michael Shermer.
  
• Are You in Anthropodenial? Douglas Foster reviews 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal.
  
• What's in a Gene? James Beebe reviews 'The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution Historical and Epistemological Perspectives' by Peter Beurton, Raphael Falk, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
  
• Paul Ehrlich challenges evolutionary psychology and the 'selfish gene' in his new book, Human Natures: 9/00 Ehrlich's book 'Human Natures' builds on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
  
• The Century of the Gene by Evelyn Fox Keller First chapter.
  
• Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay First chapter.
  
• Designing Man Robert J. Richards reviews 'Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness' by Ian Tattersall.
  
• How are we possible? Howard F. Gruber reviews Man, The Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution' by Peter J. Wilson.
  
• The Brain's Software Mark Ridley reviews 'How the Mind Works' by Steven Pinker.
  
• How the Left Got Darwin Wrong Review of 'A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation' by Peter Singer.
  
• Lingua Ex Machina by William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton First chapter.
  
• The Mysterious Flame by Colin McGinn First chapter.
  
• Coming To William H. Calvin reviews 'The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness' by Antonio R. Damasio.
  
• Evolution in a broader perspective Christophe Boesch reviews 'Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution' by Alison Jolly.
  
• Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy First chapter.
  
• The language within us Michael D. Coe reviews 'The Language Instinct' by Steven Pinker.
  
• Creationism by stealth In 1976, Jonathan Wells, a student in Moon's seminary, answered his leader's call. The result was 'Icons of Evolution'. A review by Jerry Coyne.
  
• Look! Jerry Fodor reviews 'Consilience' by E. O. Wilson.
  
• Descartes' prisoners Mary Midgley reviews ' Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness' by Marian Stamp Dawkins.
  
• The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People First chapter.
  
• Exceptions that prove the rule Harold H. Zakon reviews 'Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience' by Howard Hughes.
  
• Downloaded at Birth Steven Rose reviews 'The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics' by Stanislas Dehaene.
  
• Wild Minds by Marc D. Hauser First chapter.
  
• Biology in progress Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.
  
• What's the Forecast? John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.
  
• Cracking the Genome Peter P. Tolias reviews Cracking the Genome' by Kevin Davies.
  
• Anthropophagy David Sexton reviews 'Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
  
• How Far From the Tree? Mark Ridley reviews 'Genes, Peoples and Languages' by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.
  
• Schizophrenia 'helped the ascent of man' Robin McKie reviews 'The Madness of Adam & Eve' by David Horrobin.
  
• Thinking about feeling Zachary F. Mainen reviews 'The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness' by Antonio R. Damasio.
  
• Science and religion Druin Burch reviews 'Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life' by Stephen J. Gould.
  
• Icons of Evolution Jim Dawson reviews a flawed critique of Darwinism written by Jonathan Wells of the creationist Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture.
  
• Evolution and the .400 Hitter David Quammen reviews 'The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History' by Stephen Jay Gould.
  
• Almost like a Whale (Darwin's Ghost) - Steve Jones A review and a link to other reviews of 'Almost like a Whale'(published in the US as 'Darwin's Ghost') by Steve Jones.
  
• Is the unspeakable truth about rape that it is natural? Jerome Burn reviews 'The Natural History of Rape' by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.
  
• Nobody Does It Better Jim Holt reviews 'Taboo : Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It' by Jon Entine.
  
• Fruit fly genetics Martin Brookes reviews 'Fly: An Experimental Life' by Martin Brookes.
  
• From the monastery to the laboratory Brian Charlesworth reviews 'In Mendel's Footnotes: An Introduction to the Science and Technologies of Genes and Genetics from the 19th Century to the 22nd' by Colin Tudge
  
• The agony and the ecstasy Humphrey Carpenter reviews 'Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature' by Daniel Nettle.
  
• In Search of Deep Time by Henry Gee First chapter.
  
• It's All in Our Heads Robert Wright reviews 'The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey Into the Brain' by Paul M. Churchland.
  
• Hearts of Darkness John Horgan reviews 'Darkness in El Dorado' by Patrick Tierney.
  
• The trouble with sex Melissa Hines on 'Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women' by Deborah Blum.
  
• Natural selection John Cornwell makes his choice of scientific wonders.
  
• A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer First chapter.
  
• The Moral Animal A review of Robert Wright's 'The Moral Animal'.
  
• The Birds, the Bees and the Coolidges Derek Bickerton reviews 'The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature' by Matt Ridley.
  
• Why Sex Matters Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.
  
• Emotion by Dylan Evans A book review and discussion of Emotion by Dylan Evans from whatamIgoingtoread.com discuss books online.
  
• Analyze This Guy Emily Nussbaum reviews 'A Life of Jung' by Ronald Hayman.
  
• Funny, I thought this was science Steve Blinkhorn reviews 'Laughter: A Scientific Investigation' by Robert R. Provine.
  
• Communications from the dead A. J. Berry reviews 'Dear Mr. Darwin' by Gabrial Dover.