Alas Poor Evolutionary Psychology: Unfairly Accused, Unjustly Condemned - Book review of "Alas Poor Darwin", by Robert Kurzban. Assesses five charges against evolutionary psychology: genetic determinism, panadaptationism, unfalsifiable hypotheses, proximate explanations, and ideological bias.
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
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.
Armchair moralising - Roger Scruton reviews 'Writings on an Ethical Life' by Peter Singer.
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.
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.
Believe It or Not - Mary Lefkowitz reviews 'Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
Biology in Progress - Jon Turney reviews 'Investigations' by Stuart Kauffman.
Books of the Times - Richard Bernstein reviews 'The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?' by Stephanie Gutmann.
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 .
Branching Out - Richard Dawkins reviews 'Extinct Humans' by Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey H. Schwartz.
Brief Tragedies - Paul W. Ewald and Gregory M. Cochran review 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
Buff and Ready - Holly Brubach reviews 'Looking Good : Male Body Image in Modern America' by Lynne Luciano.
Buttering Up - Richard Klein reviews 'You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery' by Richard Stengel.
Cancer - Muiris Houston reviews 'Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy' by Mel Greaves.
Carnal Knowledge - Courtney Weaver reviews 'Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution' by Paula Kamen.
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.
Darwin wars - Brian Appleyard reviews 'Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology' edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.
A Darwinian Left - Peter Singer - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'A Darwinian Left' by Peter Singer.
Darwinian Soup - W.G. Runciman reviews 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
Down the Hatch - Stewart Kellerman reviews 'The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love' by Susan Allport.
The Dream of the Human Genome - A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".
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.
Even Baboons Get the Blues - Rob Nixon reviews 'A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons' by Robert M. Sapolsky.
Everybody Into the Gene Pool - John Durant reviews 'Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated' by Steve Jones.
Evolution and Human Origins - Bruce Bridgeman compares two approaches to the understanding of human attraibutes in evolutionary perspective.
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.
Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupré - "Dupré's Human Nature and The Limits of Science is not a successful attempt at providing a criticism of evolutionary psychology. Quite literally because it is not about evolutionary psychology, rather, as an extreme statement, it is about the author's prejudice of what evolutionary psychology is about," writes Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair in this detailed analysis.
The human stain - John McCrone reviews 'The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity' by David Horrobin.
In the Heart, or in the Head? - Liesl Schillinger reviews 'A General Theory of Love' by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon.
Intelligence - Ann Finkbeiner reviews The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing by Frank T. Vertosick. Free registration required at the New York Times
It's all just meat - Julian Evans reviews 'Cannibal: the history of the people-eaters' by Daniel Korn, Mark Radice and Charlie Hawes.
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.
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 Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore - A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'The Meme Machine' by Susan Blackmore.
Metaphors and Models - David L. Hull reviews Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller.
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.
The Origin of Language by Desmond Fearnley-Sander - When did language arise, and how? And why? If it is of value for the survival of a species, as it clearly is, then why has only one species succeeded in acquiring full-blown language? An interesting discussion of Terrence Deacon's 'The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain'.
Planters vs. Weeders - John Dupré reviews 'Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond' by Ullica Segerstråle.
Popular Neuroscience - Barbara Godlee reviews 'The Private Life of the Brain' by Susan A Greenfield.
Posthumans - Dan W. Brock reviews Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama.
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.
Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead) - Danny Yee reviews Tim Birkhead's evolutionary history of sperm competition and sexual conflict.
Software Etc - George Johnson reviews 'The Advent of the Algorithm : The Idea that Rules the World' by David Berlinski.
Speak, Monkey - George Page reviews 'Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think' by Marc D. Hauser.
Split Personality - Stephen S. Hall reviews 'Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry' by T. M. Luhrmann.
Stupid Pet Tricks - James Gorman reviews 'Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves' by Sonja I. Yoerg.
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
Swim Meet - Paul Raeburn reviews 'Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition' by Tim Birkhead.
True (altruistic) love is hard to find by Markus Kemmelmeier - This edited volume is the first publication of the Cleveland-based Institute for Research on Unlimited Love and its president Stephen G. Post. The mission of this organization is to "support research and education on 'unlimited love,' a concept defined as 'total constant love for every person with no exception.'"
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.
Wedding bells and blues - Victoria Griffin reviews 'A History of the Wife' by Marilyn Yalom.
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
Whatever Turns You On - Ian Tattersall reviews 'The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature' by Geoffrey F. Miller.
What's the Forecast? - John R. G. Turner reviews 'The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment' by Richard C. Lewontin.
Where Are We Headed? - Simon Conway Morris reviews 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny' by Robert Wright.
Why Boys Will Be Boys - Derek Bickerton reviews 'Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers: Testosterone and Behavior' by James McBride Dabbs and Mary Godwin Dabbs.
Why Sex Matters - Johan M.G. van der Dennen reviews 'Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior' by Bobbi S. Low.
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.
