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- "The Mind as the Software of the Brain" by Ned Block - Cognitive scientists often say that the mind is the software of the brain. This chapter is about what this claim means.
www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html
- A bottom-up approach with a clear view of the top - Online paper by G. F. Miller and P. M. Todd.
www-abc.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/users/ptodd/publications/94revevpsy/94revevpsya.htm
- A Host with Infectious Ideas - Paul W. Ewald argues that most cancers, heart disease and other chronic ills stem from infections. If correct, his theory will change the course of medicine.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000DBEA5-16B4-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
- A short history of stature - Woe unto the shorter people, for the taller the man, the more girlfriends he had. Richard Wiseman reports.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=aC9WW9KJ&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/3/22/ecflive2.html
- An altitude problem - People in Tibet and the Andes have evolved different strategies of coping with altitude.
www.nature.com/nsu/010222/010222-12.html
- An evolutionary approach to the analysis, assessment and treatment of behaviour problems in companion animals - These pages describe research on behaviour undertaken by staff at the School of Agriculture.
www.lincoln.ac.uk/lsa/behaviour/behaviour_paper_1.html
- An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Eating Disorders - Abed, Riadh T (1998) The sexual competition hypothesis for eating disorders. British Journal of Medical Psychology 71(4):525-547.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/08/00/cog00000800-00/eatdis~1.htm
- An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Abed, Riadh T and de Pauw, Karel W (1999) An Evolutionary Hypothesis for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Psychological Immune System?. Behavioural Neurology 11:245-250.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/11/47/cog00001147-00/ocd-final.htm
- Ancestors - Meave Leakey discusses her team's recent skull find suggesting a new human ancestor.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0417_leakeyinterview.html
- And Darwin created us all... - As two of the world's great Darwinists prepare to debate whether science is killing the soul, Tim Radford asks if natural selection is the key to life, the universe, and everything.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3817786,00.html
- Animal cognition and animal minds - A paper by Colin Allen.
grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/Papers/konstanz.html
- Animal Soul - A history of the idea and a critique of reductionism. It appeared in Paul Edwards, ed., 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy'. N.Y.: Macmillan and London: Collier-Macmillan, 1967, Vol. 1, pp. 122-27.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper59.html
- Art and Sexual Selection - Philosophy and Literature 24:2 - A paper by polymath Denis Dutton.
muse.jhu.edu/demo/philosophy_and_literature/24.2dutton02.html
- Assault on Evolution - Larry Arnhart on the activities of "intelligent design theorists".
www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/02/28/idt/index.html
- Association of Ideas - This essay appeared in Philip P. Wiener, ed., 'Dictionary of the History of Ideas'. N.Y.: Scribner's, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 111-18.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper58.html
- Back to Stone Age sex - Rape is a 'natural' act, according to a new book causing uproar in the US. Its authors are Evolutionary Psychologists, a group that takes Darwin to extremes. Critics accuse them of peddling 'scientific porn' and having a 'Flintstonian' approach to sexuality. But their influence is growing fast, says Dave Hill.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3967975,00.html
- Behavior and the General Evolutionary Process - Paper by William Baum.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/10/51/cog00001051-00/Behavior_and_the_General_Evolutionary_Process.htm
- Behavioral inferences from the Skhul/Qafzeh early modern human hand remains - These results support the inference of significant behavioral differences between Neanderthals and the Skhul/Qafzeh hominids and indicate that a significant shift in human manipulative behaviors was associated with the earliest stages of the emergence of modern humans.
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041588898v1
- Behavioural economics - Richard Thaler has led a revolution in the study of economics by understanding the strange ways people behave with their money.
www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20010211mag-econ.html
- Bottlenose dolphins and theory of mind - Bottlenose dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror, an advanced intellectual ability observed previously only in humans and apes.
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101086398v1
- Brain Terrain - Mapping the functions of various areas.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000E2439-54B9-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
- Building a Brainier Mouse - By genetically engineering a smarter than average mouse, scientists have assembled some of the central molecular components of learning and memory.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B5B07-3F44-1C75-9B81809EC588EF21
- Chance would be a fine thing - A long-dead clergyman enters the race to make computers think for themselves.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&rtmo=wesKQKQb&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/2/3/tlynch03.html
- Chimps touched by television - Chimpanzees are moved by fearful or appealing television scenes.
www.nature.com/nsu/010419/010419-2.html
- Darwin and the Genre of Biography - Published in G. Levine, ed., 'One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature'. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 203-24.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper48.html
- Darwin on the Evolution of Morality - Paper presented for the session on the 19th century biology, International Fellows Conference (Center for Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh), May 20-24, Castiglioncello, Italy by Soshichi Uchii, Kyoto University.
www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/D.onM.html
- Darwin's darling - A profile of Helena Cronin.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3896379,00.html
- Darwin's Metaphor and the Philosophy of Science - This was first presented to the Piaget Seminar, University of Geneva, about 1986 and published in Science as Culture (no. 16) 3: 375-403, 1993. It draws out the philosophical implications of 'Darwin's Metaphor' (Cambridge, 1985), in particular, the role of metaphorical and teleological language in Darwin.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper8.html
- Darwin, Marx, Freud and the Foundations of the Human Sciences - This is a talk on the grand view of the human sciences, presented to CHEIRON, the European Society for the History of the Behavioural Sciences and reprinted in its Newsletter, Spring 1988, pp. 7-12.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper9.html
- Darwin: Man and Metaphor - This is the text of a television documentary in the series 'Late Great Victorians', BBC1, 1988. It was also published in Science as Culture no. 5: 71-86, 1989.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper7.html
- Darwinism and the Division of Labour - The founding conference of the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science in November 1970, was on the theme, 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. The conference was attended by a number of eminent scientists, e.g., Nobel Laureates James Watson, Jaques Monod, Maurice Wilkins; David Bohm, Jacob Bronowski, R.G. Edwards (of Steptoe & Edwards, the pioneers of 'test-tube babies'), as well as some radicals, Hilary & Steven Rose, John Beckwith. It was, perhaps, the last moment when radicals and posh scientists were relatively united. The talk was published in The Listener, 17 August 1972, pp. 202-5 and in Science as Culture no. 9: 110-24, 1990.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap109.html
- Darwinism is Social - This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper60.html
- Deep down, women prefer men with a booming voice - Research into women's sexual preferences showed that men with deep, booming voices are perceived as being more attractive, stronger and taller than men who speak with a high-pitched squawk.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=aC9WW9KJ&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/1/4/nboom04.html
- Domestication - DNA is revealing that taming animals was not a simple process.
www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=587270
- Dreams - Matthew Wilson contends that animals do have complex dreams.
web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/dreaming.html
- Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View - This article is largely historical, but the issues remain timely.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper46.html
- Evolution, Teleology, Intentionality - Online paper by Daniel Dennett.
ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/evoltele.htm
- Evolutionary Biology and Ideology: Then and Now - A paper contributed to a conference on 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. It appeared in Science Studies 1: 177-296, 1971.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper38.html
- Evolutionary Ethics and Biologically Supportable Morality - A paper by Michael Byron.
www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthByro.htm
- Evolutionary naturalism, theism, and skepticism about the external world - Online paper by J. Wesley Robbins.
www.iusb.edu/~wrobbins/Essays/contraplantinga.html
- Evolutionary theory and the psychology of eating - Online paper by A. W. Logue.
darwin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/LogueA.html
- Exorcising the Homunculus: There's No One Behind the Curtain - The traditional view of the will as a kind of little man in your head needs to be replaced by a detailed account of how neural tissue gives rise to controlled behavior.
www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/noelle_21_2.html
- Fear makes worms turn friendly - A single gene influences the social behaviour of worms.
www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-1.html
- Feminism and evolutionary psychology - Online paper by S. L. Hurley on the compatibility of these approaches.
www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/S.L.Hurley/FEP.htm
- For Fathers and Newborns, Natural Law and Odor - Swedish scientists find that babies smell appealing, and speculate on a method to pacify aggressive men.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/science/A47409-2001Feb23.html
- Functional Origins of Religious Concepts - This is a profound essay on the role of religion from an evolutionary perspective. Pascal Boyer, the author, is one of the rising stars in evolutionary theory in the social sciences.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm
- Gene-Trapping Method Powers Discovery of New Brain-Wiring Signals - Marc Tessier-Lavigne and William C. Skarnes unveil a technique that "enables scientists to identify new genes and to determine which genes are responsible for defects in brain wiring that are observed during development".
www.hhmi.org/news/tessier4.html
- Genes, culture and human freedom - Like every other organism, humans are shaped by both nature and nurture. But unlike any other organism, we are defined by our ability to transcend both. Article by Kenan Malik.
www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000000552D.htm
- Genetics - The British Medical Journal publishes a special edition "putting genetics into perspective".
bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7293/1005
- Get Real - Daniel Dennett responds to his critics.
ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/getreal.htm
- Has psychology become respectable at last? - The past decade witnessed the surge of "evolutionary psychology". Its most thoughtful exponents, such as Robert Plomin, are confident that economics, education and sociology will all benefit from evolutionary psychology and gene mapping.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4150424,00.html
- Herbert Spencer and Inevitable Progress - Spencer is so grandiose that it is hard to summarize his ideas, yet he was one of the most influential thinkers in nineteenth-century Britain, and his ideas were an inspiration around the world. His version of evolution was utterly generalised in all the ways Darwin tried to be circumspect. The organic analogies which Spencer developed are the foundation-stones for the widespread idea of functionalism across the biomedical and human sciences, extending to architecture, systems theory, cybernetics and information theory. The essay was reprinted in a collection from the journal: G. Marsden, ed., Victorian Values. Longman, 1990.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper84.html
- Homo Deceptus - Never trust Stephen Jay Gould. by Robert Wright - An article in Slate.
slate.msn.com/Earthling/96-11-27/Earthling.asp
- How Hardwired Is Human Behavior? - Abstract and electronic delivery of Nigel Nicholson's paper in the Harvard Business Review.
www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/julaug98/98406.html
- How intellect helps pick up chicks - Roger Highfield reports on Geoffrey Miller's 'The Mating Mind'.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=Lxhthxxd&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/5/3/ecfchic0.html
- How Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution - In The Boston Review, John Alcock, professor of biology at Arizona State University, provides a detailed look at Gould's approach to adaptationism.
bostonreview.mit.edu/BR25.2/alcock.html
- Human genome - overview - press releases - Comprehensive information on the first draft of the human genome from Nature.
www.nature.com/genomics/human/overview/press-releases.html
- Humans and Other Animals - How much do we share with the birds of the air and the beasts of the field? Article by John Wilson at Christianity Today.
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/135/11.0.html
- Humans-Who Are We? - Official Web Site - Humans are brimming with unique traits that do not fit the animal mold - according to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/6/22/article_01.htm
- Impressing the birds really takes brains - Joah Madden has found evidence that brains increased in size during evolution so that men could impress choosy women with their artistic prowess.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=pseMQpIe&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/9/nhead09.html
- In Favor of Animal Consciousness - An excerpt from Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin, the creator of the field of cognitive ethology.
www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/308650.html
- Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology - Online paper by David Buller.
cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/03/28/cog00000328-00/indy&ep.htm
- Intentionality detection and "mindreading": Why does game form matter? PNAS -- McCabe et al. 97 (8): 4404 - By around the age of 4 years, children "can work out what people might know, think or believe" based on what they say or do. This is called "mindreading," which builds upon the human ability to infer the intentions of others.
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/8/4404
- IQ and longevity - Results of an intelligence test, given to all 11-year olds attending Aberdeen schools in 1932, were used to determine survival up to 76 years. Of 2,230 subjects traced, those who died before 1 January 1997 had a significantly lower IQ at age 11 years than those who were alive or untraced. This suggests that high mental ability in late childhood reduces the chances of death up to age 76.
bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7290/871/a
- Is Out of Africa Going Out the Door? - Reanalysis of gene studies and new fossil evidence cast doubts of a popular theory of human origins.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00062D52-ABB0-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7
- Is There a Normal Phase of Synaesthesia in Development? - A paper in Psyche by Simon Baron-Cohen.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-27-baron_cohen.html
- It's only natural - Red Pepper archive - The bioglogical differences between men and women are no threat to feminism, says Helena Cronin.
www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xcronin.html
- Longevity - Ageing and our own mortality could be the price we pay for human fertility, says Tom Kirkwood.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-115945,00.html
- Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint - A paper was presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, London, on 20 March 1998.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap107.html
- Mammoth Kill - Did humans hunt giant mammals to extinction? Or give them lethal disease?
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00021C52-1860-1C71-84A9809EC588EF21
- Man, the utterly exceptional beast - Scientists increasingly see mankind as just another animal, but they are leaving out the thing that makes us special, writes Kenan Malik.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/10/22/stirevnws02015.html
- Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination - Online paper by Daniel Dennett.
ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/memeimag.htm
- Men fish for compliments - The menfolk of the Meriam, a people who live on islands off the northeast tip of Australia, spend their time spear-fishing and turtle-hunting, but are they really fishing for compliments?
www.nature.com/nsu/010412/010412-1.html
- Men Show Feelings In Lower Left Quadrant Of Face - When it comes to emotions men and women are equally expressive, but men display most of their joy, disgust or other sentiments in the lower left quadrant of their face. Women, on the other hand, show their emotions across their entire countenance.
unisci.com/stories/20011/0216014.htm
- Menarche - Any decrease in average menarcheal age during the past 20-30 years has been small (almost certainly less than six months), particularly when compared with the reduction of a year or more that occurred in many European countries between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries.
bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7294/1095
- More Than the Best Medicine - Hear the one about the baboon with the wooden leg? Laughing to make friends and influence others.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BBC59-EC8D-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
- Mozart 'can cut epilepsy' - Music, particularly Mozart, could have a therapeutic effect on epilepsy, say scientists.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1251000/1251839.stm
- Neurobiology of laughter - Did you hear the one about the prefrontal cortex?
www.nature.com/nsu/010301/010301-7.html
- Neuroethology and the philosophy of cognitive science - Online paper by Brian L. Keeley.
artsci.wustl.edu/~bkeeley/work/pubs/bk-psa98/bk-psa98-paper.html
- Origins of the specious - Andrew Brown explains why 'Introducing Evolutionary Psychology', the latest in Icon Books' popular series of comic books on important subjects, has been withdrawn from sale while 10,000 stickers are pasted over the face of Steven Rose.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3936439,00.html
- Palaeoanthropology and politics - Norman Levitt reflects on the Kennewick Man affair.
www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000053AD.htm
- Paleolithic Pit Stop - A French site suggests Neandertals and early modern humans behaved similarly.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F0825-AC71-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7
- Perfect pitch may help babies speak - US researchers say everyone may be born with perfect pitch to help them learn the skills of language.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/san_francisco/newsid_1179000/1179664.stm
- Pinker and the Brain - Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the evolutionary origins of language and behavior while keeping his detractors at bay.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00069677-7A11-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7
- Prediction and Accommodation in Evolutionary Psychology - Ketelaar and Ellis have provided a remarkably clear and succinct statement of Lakatosian philosophy of science and have also argued compellingly that evolutionary theory fills the Lakatosian criteria of a progressivity.
philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/papers/Lakatos.htm
- Psychological brain damage - Martin Teicher and colleagues report four types of brain damage caused by psychological abuse.
www.psych.org/pnews/01-03-02/abuse.html
- Psychology - Frans de Waal claims that psychology is bound to become more Darwinian.
www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/darwin.html
- Queue here to join the human race - Joseph Henrich and Robert Boyd have developed a mathematical model to measure human co-operation.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-88958,00.html
- Reproductive greontology - The relationship between aging and the risk of producing offspring with gene-influenced illnesses.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4170048,00.html
- Ring-breaker drives dove love - Leonida Fusani and colleagues discover the role of aromatase in courtship behaviour.
www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-2.html
- Scholarship and the History of the Behavioural Sciences - A paper that first appeared in History of Science 2: 1-51, 1966.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper57.html
- Science -- Human genome - The special issue on the first draft of the human genome.
www.sciencemag.org/content/vol291/issue5507
- Sex: what men and women want, naturally - Scientists have solved the age-old mystery of why the human male is monogamous.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=69435
- Sexual selection and the mind - A talk with evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller on sexual selection and the mind at 'The Edge'.
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/miller/index.html
- Short men are more likely to stay childless - Tall men are likely to father more children than shorter men, according to scientists who have analysed the reproductive success of more than 3,000 males.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=14652
- Social Power and Self Deception - Social evolution and social influence: selfishness, deception, self-deception. A scholarly paper by Mario F. Heilmann, University of California at Los Angeles.
www.a3.com/myself/ravenpap.htm
- Sociobiology Sanitized: The Evolutionary Psychology and Genic Selectionism Debates - Socio-political overview of the circumstances leading to the development of Evolutionary Psychology as distinct from Sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This web page is associated with the Science-as-Culture mailing list and journal.
human-nature.com/science-as-culture/dusek.html
- Sport and evolutionary psychology - What is the relationship between spatial ability, finger length, and sporting prowess?
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-91237,00.html
- Sport and genetics - Stephen Jay Gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes.
news.bmn.com/news/story?day=010410&story=3
- Steven Pinker: the mind reader - In room 10-250 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the brightest undergraduates in America are filing in for the start of their Thursday afternoon lecture. These students, taking psychology 101, are drawn from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, and all of them, men and women, are dressed in the same baggy, designer-labelled sportswear. They are fresh-faced and polite, chattering about assignments and movies, and seem overwhelmingly confident that life will go well for them.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3926387,00.html
- Stone Age bosses aren't all that bad - Applied to business, as Nigel Nicholson does in his book Managing The Human Animal (Texere, £18.99), Evolutionary Psychology suggests that most organisational practice runs directly against the grain of human programming.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4116809,00.html
- Surprising brain - Gregory S. Berns and colleagues are beginning to reveal the biological basis of the human attraction to surprising events.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,74-122163,00.html
- Swanson et al. 98 (5): 2509 - A new study by Willie J. Swanson and colleagues provides evidence of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/5/2509
- Teenage boys are embracing fatherhood - Scientists have found that boys aged between 11 and 14 unconsciously change the way they cradle babies, a sign of their emerging parental instincts.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=fsDMwl3s&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/26/ecnurt26.html
- Temptation Island: Explaining Shannon and Andy by Robert Wright - According to Robert Wright evolutionary psychologists "try to predict behavior only in an aggregate statistical sense, mindful that there will always be exceptions".
slate.msn.com/Earthling/01-02-28/Earthling.asp
- The (Im)moral Animal - A controversial outline of evolutionary psychology by Frank Miele of Skeptic Magazine.
www.skeptic.com/04.1.miele-immoral.html
- The adaptive nature of the human neurocognitive architecture: An alternative model PNAS -- Cerra and Bingham 95 (19): 11290 - The model of the human neurocognitive architecture proposed by evolutionary psychologists is based on the presumption that the demands of hunter-gatherer life generated a vast array of cognitive adaptations. Here we present an alternative model.
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/19/11290
- The Cavemans New Clothes - From what they wore to how they hunted: overturning the threadbare reconstructions of Ice Age culture.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000F05EF-048B-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
- The cognitive skills of Neanderthals - Neanderthals were predators.
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/13/7663
- The Darwin Debate - This essay appeared in Marxism Today 26 (no.4), April 1982, pp. 20-22.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper83.html
- The Development of Herbert Spencer's Concept of Evolution - A paper delivered to the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw, August 1965 and published in Actes du Xle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 273-78.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/spencer.html
- The Functions of Postpartum Depression - An online paper by Edward Hagen.
www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/hagen/working.html
- The Functions of the Brain: Gall to Ferrier (1808-1886) - An online paper on mind, brain, and adaptation in the nineteenth century. It was published in Isis 59: 251-68, 1968.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/func.html
- The Genetic Archaeology of Race | Olson - The study of human genetic variation has become the most contentious area in modern science. A detailed article by Steve Olson.
www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/04/olson-p1.htm
- The Human Limits of Nature - 'The Limits of Human Nature' was the title of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts winter lecture series for 1971-72. The distinguished group of contributors, included Alan Ryan, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, Raymond Williams and John Maynard Smith. This contribution was published in J. Benthall, ed., 'The Limits of Human Nature' (Allen Lane, 1973), pp. 235-74.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper43.html
- The Meanings of Darwinism: Then and Now? - Charles Darwin grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and attended Shrewsbury School for seven years. The school held a Millennium Conference on 'Darwinism and Ethics for the Next Millennium' on 16 October 1999. Papers were given by Mary Midgley, Matt Ridley, Colin Tudge and Robert M. Young.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap124.html
- The Naturalization of Value Systems in the Human Sciences - This essay first appeared as an Open University Course Unit for 'Science and Belief: from Darwin to Einstein', Block VI: Problems in the Biological and Human Sciences. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1981, pp. 63-110.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper45.html
- The New Creationism by Robert Wright - With this sentence, the newspaper of record has now granted official significance to the latest form of opposition to Darwinism. As the Times notes, adherents of 'intelligent design theory' are doing what creationists have long done, such as trying to change public-school science curricula. But there's a difference: Instead of being a bunch of yahoos, they are a bunch of 'academics and intellectuals' with new, 'more sophisticated' ideas.
slate.msn.com/Earthling/01-04-16/Earthling.asp
- The sweet smell of the immune system - Manfred Milinski and Claus Wedekind find evidence for the hypothesis that "perfumes are selected "for self" to amplify in some way body odors that reveal a person's immunogenetics".
www.nature.com/nsu/010308/010308-10.html
- There's more to life than genes - Some scientists argue that genes predetermine our behaviour. But the human condition is not so simple, say Steven Rose and Hilary Rose.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/06/11/stirevnws02004.html
- To Love, Honour and Deceive - Long-term relationships are fundamentally dishonest. And it's all women's fault, new research suggests.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1296000/1296607.stm
- Unconscious - Philip Wong and Howard Shevrin have uncovered neurobiological evidence for the human unconscious state.
www.psych.org/pnews/01-03-02/brain.html
- We are bigger than our genes - thank God - John Humphreys asserts that 'Free will may be an illusion, but it is a valuable one'.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/07/02/stinwcopn01003.html
- Wealth and happiness - Money can bring happiness, if you have a lot of it.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/04/stinwenws02033.html
- What if Human Nature Is Historical - This essay moves from pure ideology about changing human nature to using biofeedback as a transitional topic to spelling out the desiderata for treating human nature as a historical project.
www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper61.html
- What Is Satisfying About Satisfying Events? Testing 10 Candidate Psychological Needs - Kennon M. Sheldon and colleagues find out what makes people happiest.
www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp802325.html
- Why do we adapt? The answer's in your genes - Richard Dawkins discusses 'selfish genes'.
www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=59270
- Why elephants don't forget - A study of African elephants reveals that dominant females build up a social memory as they get older, helping the herd to survive.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1285000/1285532.stm
- Why we're all getting brighter - Dumbing down? Don't believe it. Scientists have proved we are smarter now than ever before, largely because we watch TV, surf the net, and spend hours chatting to friends.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4173806,00.html
- Why women will always favour the brave - Women will always love a hero, according to a study that found females value bravery above altruism when selecting men, whether it is for marriage, an affair, or a platonic relationship.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=psbB1lSe&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/2/8/ecnhero08.html
- Womb Wars - New evidence that a mothers and fathers imprinted genes battle to determine a babys size.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000EB10-BF30-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
- Women will lose as long as men make the rules - Nigel Nicholson, professor of organisational behaviour at the London Business School, has created a theory of evolutionary psychology that basically says that most businesses are run to satisfy distinctly masculine drives.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/10/22/stiappapp01001.html
- Women's genes tell them to become mothers early - WOMEN can hear their biological clock ticking as they approach the menopause because they are genetically predisposed to have their first child at an early age.
www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001652968606417&rtmo=lvouP7bt&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/4/23/wmum23.html
- You've got a lot to answer for, Charlie Darwin - Is psychology frozen in the Pleistocene era? Hilary and Steven Rose are sure it must have evolved since then.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4039888,00.html
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