Evolutionary Psychology Online -
An international research information network and discussion group on
brain, behaviour and evolution, with over 3150 members in 150 countries,
including distinguished individuals at most good universities and
institutes worldwide. The archive of over 16,000 items constitutes the
world's largest database on evolutionary psychology and related fields.
Ancient Cannibalism - A report in Nature may settle once and for all
a contentious debate in the world of anthropology.
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'.
BBC News: '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.
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.
The biology of humour - Brain scans show that puns and other types of
joke are deciphered in different parts of the brain.
Biology of Language - Steven Pinker and Myrna Gopnik in a Science
Friday audio discussion.
Biology Rules - Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould's review of E.
0. Wilson's book Consilience.
Biopsy - This site is maintained
by Simon Gadbois, lecturer at Acadia and Dalhousie University, Nova
Scotia, Canada, and includes links and resources for animal behaviour,
behavioural endocrinology, evolutionary psychology and biological
psychology.
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?
Boxmind - Superb online video
lecture series featuring Steven Pinker, John Searle, Daniel Dennett,
Richard Dawkins and others.
Brain Development - Marion Diamond and others on how genes and the
environment work together to shape the young developing brain.
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.
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.
Consciousness - Radio debate between Dennett, Chalmers, and Koch.
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.
The Dance of
Consciousness - In an audio interview, neuroscientist Walter J.
Freeman discusses his view that consciousness springs from action.
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.
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.
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?
Discovery Channel: Stone Ages - Discovery.com feature highlights
prehistoric human life, with stone age interactives, games, galleries and
latest news about human evolution.
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".
Earliest evidence of art found - Archaeologists uncover evidence that
early humans used paint for aesthetic purposes far earlier than
previously thought.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eugenie Scott on Creationism - Kansas State University present the
Landon Lecture series both in RealAudio format and in transcripts.
Evolution and Cognition - An interdisciplinary forum devoted to all
aspects of research on cognition in animals and humans.
Evolution and Higher Cognition - A fascinating archive of papers from
theorists at the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology.
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
Evolution and Psychology
- Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism linking Directed Mutation
to the Baldwin Effect. How Psychology colours perception of natural
realities.
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.
Evolutionary Psychology - Introduction to the evolutionary approach
to human nature, including Wilson's ladder and other concepts in
sociobiology.
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).
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
Film Archive of Human Ethology - Archives of Films, Videos and
photographies on the Ethology of Humans comparing different cultures
A finger on sexuality - Finger length may be an indication of sexual
orientation, a study by Marc Breedlove has shown.
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.
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.
Francis Fukyama - Ray Suarez in a conversation with the controversial
author and political scientist.
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'.
Frans de Waal -
An audio interview with the primatologist and author.
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.
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.
Human
evolution - Humans and chimpanzees are more closely related to each
other than either are to gorillas.
The Human Face - John Cleese and Liz Hurley discover some of the
mysteries hidden behind the mask of the human face.
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.
Human Nature
Review - Articles and book reviews on the nature of human nature,
with good coverage of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
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.
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.
Identifying the accident prone - Your personality could determine how
likely you are to be involved in an accident, say researchers.
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.
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.
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.
Jack Parsons Home Page
- Comprehensive coverage of the scholarly work of the writer, lecturer, &
consultant on population, development, & related social, political, &
ethical problems.
Jared Diamond
- An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary
biologist and biogeographer.
Koen DePryck - Links to
publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and
other items.
Language gene - NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of
the first gene linked to speech and language.
The Leakey Legacy - A discussion featuring Virginia Morrell, author
of Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's
Beginnings.
Learning and Dreaming - A Science Friday audio discussion on the
science of dreaming featuring Robert Stickgold and Matthew Wilson.
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.
Managing the Tribe
- An evolutionary perspective on mental illness, discussing depression
and other disorders as part of the human design.
Margaret Hagen
- Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.
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.
Mindship - Video interviews with Chris Frith, Karl Grammer, John
Casti and many others.
Monkey Math - What do experiments on mathematical ability in other
species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?
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.
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.
The original 'rock music' - Many Stone Age relics lying in our
museums might not simply be tools but could also be musical instruments.
'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.
'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'.
'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.
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.
'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
Origins of Violence: Is Psychopathy an Adaptation? by Ian Pitchford -
Violence has been attributed to many causes including mental illness,
brain damage, child abuse, and social deprivation. This article provides
a brief overview of some recent work on sociopathy and psychopathy and
argues that models of violence, and explanations of violent acts such as
rape and homicide, need to accommodate the possibility that a large
proportion of such acts are committed by individuals whose psychology is
very different to that of the general population.
'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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Pinker
and the Brain - Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the
evolutionary origins of language and behavior while keeping his
detractors at bay.
Psychological
Anthropology - An Introduction to Psychological Anthropology and
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Human Mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The Science of Beauty - Nancy Etcoff, Doug Jones and Steve Gangestad
discuss the science of beauty.
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.
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.
Scientists 'locate' intelligence - British and German scientists
believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain
responsible for intelligence.
Secrets of the brain - The organ of thought is the subject of a major
new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.
Sex on the
Brain - A National Public Radio Interview with Deborah Blum.
The Undiscovered Mind - A conversation with John Horgan on his
dismissive views of contemporary research.
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.
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.
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?
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.
William Calvin
- Audio interview with the theoretical neurophysiologist at the
University of Washington.
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.
World
Database of Happiness - A continuous register of scientific research
on subjective appreciation of life directed by Ruut Veenhoven, Erasmus
University Rotterdam.
The World of
Richard Dawkins - An excellent overview of Dawkins' work including
the full text of numerous articles.
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.