Evolución

Nuestra antigua historia se despliega a través de la ciencia de vanguardia, revelando cómo el ADN, la selección natural y las fuerzas biológicas han moldeado todo, desde nuestros cuerpos hasta nuestros comportamientos. Pensadores destacados iluminan el lugar de la humanidad en el gran experimento de la naturaleza, explorando el sexo, la inteligencia, la salud y las innumerables peculiaridades que nos hacen únicamente humanos.

Evolución Resúmenes de libros

Trying Not to Try

por Edward Slingerland • 2014

Four paths to spontaneous mastery, debated in ancient China and now confirmed by cognitive science.

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🍃 Effortless Action 🧠 Cognitive Science 📚 Comparative Philosophy ⚖️ Dual Process Theory

Trying Not to Try

Four paths to spontaneous mastery, debated in ancient China and now confirmed by cognitive science.

por Edward Slingerland 2014 304 páginas

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🍃 Effortless Action 🧠 Cognitive Science 📚 Comparative Philosophy ⚖️ Dual Process Theory

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

por Alan S. Miller • 2006

The mating dance, boardroom gambles, and prayer: all driven by a brain built for the savannah.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Human Mating 🦚 Sexual Selection ⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch 🙏 Psychology Of Religion

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

The mating dance, boardroom gambles, and prayer: all driven by a brain built for the savannah.

por Alan S. Miller 2006 252 páginas

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Human Mating 🦚 Sexual Selection ⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch 🙏 Psychology Of Religion

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

por Michael Tomasello • 1999

Reading each other's goals let knowledge stockpile across generations, changing the mind forever.

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🧠 Cognitive Development 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Social Cognition 🗣️ Language Acquisition 💭 Symbolic Thought

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

Reading each other's goals let knowledge stockpile across generations, changing the mind forever.

por Michael Tomasello 1999 256 páginas

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🧠 Cognitive Development 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Social Cognition 🗣️ Language Acquisition 💭 Symbolic Thought

Richard Dawkins

por Mark Ridley • 2006

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐾 Natural Selection 🤝 Altruism 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Science Advocacy

Richard Dawkins

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

por Mark Ridley 2006 304 páginas

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐾 Natural Selection 🤝 Altruism 🌐 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Science Advocacy

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

por Frans de Waal • 2016

We tested animal minds as defective humans. Once we redesigned the tests, they stopped failing.

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🧠 Animal Cognition ❌ Human Exceptionalism 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤝 Social Intelligence 🌿 Behavioral Ecology

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

We tested animal minds as defective humans. Once we redesigned the tests, they stopped failing.

por Frans de Waal 2016 340 páginas

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🧠 Animal Cognition ❌ Human Exceptionalism 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤝 Social Intelligence 🌿 Behavioral Ecology

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

por Carl Zimmer • 2018

Heredity runs through genes, womb, culture, and deep time. The simple story is wrong.

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🧬 Genetics And Heredity 🔬 History Of Science 🌱 Nature And Nurture 🧪 Epigenetics 🦴 Ancient DNA

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

Heredity runs through genes, womb, culture, and deep time. The simple story is wrong.

por Carl Zimmer 2018 657 páginas

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🧬 Genetics And Heredity 🔬 History Of Science 🌱 Nature And Nurture 🧪 Epigenetics 🦴 Ancient DNA

Subliminal

por Leonard Mlodinow • 2012

The unconscious builds reality, distorts memory, and chooses your friends. You just take the credit.

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing ⚖️ Cognitive Biases 🏗️ Constructed Reality 🤝 Social Cognition

Subliminal

The unconscious builds reality, distorts memory, and chooses your friends. You just take the credit.

por Leonard Mlodinow 2012 260 páginas

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🌊 Unconscious Processing ⚖️ Cognitive Biases 🏗️ Constructed Reality 🤝 Social Cognition

Separation

por John Bowlby • 1972

The evolutionary reason a caregiver's absence terrifies a child, and why the fear can last.

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🧒 Attachment Theory 👶 Early Childhood Development 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏠 Family Systems 😢 Loss And Grief

Separation

The evolutionary reason a caregiver's absence terrifies a child, and why the fear can last.

por John Bowlby 1972 444 páginas

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🧒 Attachment Theory 👶 Early Childhood Development 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏠 Family Systems 😢 Loss And Grief

Peoplewatching

por Desmond Morris • 2002

A field guide for reading the signals people send without knowing they are sending them.

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🧍 Body Language 🐒 Ethology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 😶 Facial Expressions 🔍 Deception Detection

Peoplewatching

A field guide for reading the signals people send without knowing they are sending them.

por Desmond Morris 2002 544 páginas

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🧍 Body Language 🐒 Ethology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 😶 Facial Expressions 🔍 Deception Detection

Climbing Mount Improbable

por Richard Dawkins • 1996

Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.

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👁️ Convergent Evolution 🪜 Gradual Adaptation 🐝 Coevolution 🔬 Embryonic Development 🧬 Gene-Centered Evolution

Climbing Mount Improbable

Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.

por Richard Dawkins 1996 308 páginas

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👁️ Convergent Evolution 🪜 Gradual Adaptation 🐝 Coevolution 🔬 Embryonic Development 🧬 Gene-Centered Evolution

Virus of the Mind

por Richard Brodie • 1995

Your beliefs spread the way colds do. They evolved to be catchy, not true.

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🔄 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💭 Memetics 🦠 Cultural Viruses 🔁 Mental Programming

Virus of the Mind

Your beliefs spread the way colds do. They evolved to be catchy, not true.

por Richard Brodie 1995 256 páginas

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🔄 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💭 Memetics 🦠 Cultural Viruses 🔁 Mental Programming

Who We Are and How We Got Here

por David Reich • 2018

Ancient DNA rewrites the last 300,000 years: humans are a history of continuous, radical mixture.

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🧬 Ancient Dna 🏺 Human Prehistory 🤝 Population Admixture 🌍 Human Origins 🧪 Genome Revolution

Who We Are and How We Got Here

Ancient DNA rewrites the last 300,000 years: humans are a history of continuous, radical mixture.

por David Reich 2018 335 páginas

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🧬 Ancient Dna 🏺 Human Prehistory 🤝 Population Admixture 🌍 Human Origins 🧪 Genome Revolution

En busca de Spinoza

por António Damásio • 2001

A neuroscientist discovers a 17th-century philosopher already mapped the biology of joy and sorrow.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🏛️ Neurophilosophy 🤝 Social Emotions ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧬 Embodied Cognition

En busca de Spinoza

A neuroscientist discovers a 17th-century philosopher already mapped the biology of joy and sorrow.

por António Damásio 2001 355 páginas

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🏛️ Neurophilosophy 🤝 Social Emotions ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧬 Embodied Cognition

Black and White Thinking

por Kevin Dutton • 2021

Your brain sorts the world into two piles. It saved your ancestors. It sabotages you.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏷️ Categorical Thinking 🖼️ Framing Effects ⚡ Polarization

Black and White Thinking

Your brain sorts the world into two piles. It saved your ancestors. It sabotages you.

por Kevin Dutton 2021

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏷️ Categorical Thinking 🖼️ Framing Effects ⚡ Polarization

El cerebro emocional

por Joseph E. LeDoux • 1996

Emotions are unconscious survival circuits. Conscious feelings are just the readout, not the engine.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Brain Circuitry 💭 Emotional Memory 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 😟 Anxiety Disorders

El cerebro emocional

Emotions are unconscious survival circuits. Conscious feelings are just the readout, not the engine.

por Joseph E. LeDoux 1996 384 páginas

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🔌 Brain Circuitry 💭 Emotional Memory 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 😟 Anxiety Disorders

Nonzero

por Robert Wright

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

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📜 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🏛️ Social Complexity 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Nonzero

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

por Robert Wright 450 páginas

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📜 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🏛️ Social Complexity 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

What Doesn't Kill Us

por Scott Carney • 2017

Your immune system isn't as automatic as you think. Cold and breath can hack it.

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🧊 Cold Exposure 🧬 Evolutionary Health 🌬️ Breathwork ⚡ Stress Adaptation 🏔️ Endurance Training

What Doesn't Kill Us

Your immune system isn't as automatic as you think. Cold and breath can hack it.

por Scott Carney 2017 272 páginas

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🧊 Cold Exposure 🧬 Evolutionary Health 🌬️ Breathwork ⚡ Stress Adaptation 🏔️ Endurance Training

The Mathematics of Life

por Ian Stewart • 2011

Math cracked physics. Now it's unlocking biology, from protein origami to alien life.

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🧬 Mathematical Biology 🧪 Systems Biology 🦋 Chaos Theory 🕸️ Network Theory 🌱 Pattern Formation

The Mathematics of Life

Math cracked physics. Now it's unlocking biology, from protein origami to alien life.

por Ian Stewart 2011 371 páginas

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🧬 Mathematical Biology 🧪 Systems Biology 🦋 Chaos Theory 🕸️ Network Theory 🌱 Pattern Formation

The Sweet Spot

por Paul Bloom • 2021

Why you chase pain, from ghost peppers to marathons, and how difficulty makes life meaningful.

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😊 Positive Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧭 Psychology Of Meaning 🌊 Flow States 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth

The Sweet Spot

Why you chase pain, from ghost peppers to marathons, and how difficulty makes life meaningful.

por Paul Bloom 2021 304 páginas

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😊 Positive Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧭 Psychology Of Meaning 🌊 Flow States 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth

Origins of Human Communication

por Michael Tomasello • 1999

Language didn't start with a code. It started with pointing, pantomime, and the urge to help.

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🧬 Evolutionary Linguistics 🤝 Cooperative Communication 👋 Gesture Studies 🐒 Comparative Psychology 📚 Cultural Transmission

Origins of Human Communication

Language didn't start with a code. It started with pointing, pantomime, and the urge to help.

por Michael Tomasello 1999 393 páginas

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🧬 Evolutionary Linguistics 🤝 Cooperative Communication 👋 Gesture Studies 🐒 Comparative Psychology 📚 Cultural Transmission

Yuval Noah Harari Colección de 3 Libros

por Yuval Noah Harari • 2019

The old stories that gave us meaning are failing while AI and biotech promise to remake humanity.

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🏛️ Big History 🧬 Human Evolution 🤖 Technological Change ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work

Yuval Noah Harari Colección de 3 Libros

The old stories that gave us meaning are failing while AI and biotech promise to remake humanity.

por Yuval Noah Harari 2019

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🏛️ Big History 🧬 Human Evolution 🤖 Technological Change ⚖️ Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work

Age of Empathy

por Frans de Waal • 2009

Empathy isn't a human invention. It's an animal legacy, and a primatologist has the evidence.

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🐒 Primatology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🐘 Animal Cognition ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🤝 Cooperation Evolution

Age of Empathy

Empathy isn't a human invention. It's an animal legacy, and a primatologist has the evidence.

por Frans de Waal 2009 304 páginas

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🐒 Primatology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🐘 Animal Cognition ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🤝 Cooperation Evolution

El origen de las especies

por Charles Darwin • 1859

How one blind, patient mechanism produced every species on Earth, from orchids to humans.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 📜 Scientific Classics 🏛️ Victorian Science 🌿 Speciation ⏳ Gradualism

El origen de las especies

How one blind, patient mechanism produced every species on Earth, from orchids to humans.

por Charles Darwin 1859 703 páginas

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 📜 Scientific Classics 🏛️ Victorian Science 🌿 Speciation ⏳ Gradualism

The Essential Difference

por Simon Baron-Cohen • 2003

Female brains favor empathy, male brains favor systems. This theory says autism is the male extreme.

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🧬 Sex Differences 🍃 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Theory Of Mind 🌈 Autism Spectrum

The Essential Difference

Female brains favor empathy, male brains favor systems. This theory says autism is the male extreme.

por Simon Baron-Cohen 2003 288 páginas

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🧬 Sex Differences 🍃 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Theory Of Mind 🌈 Autism Spectrum

God's Undertaker

por John C. Lennox • 2002

Cosmology, biology, and history do not point away from a creator; they point toward one.

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🧬 Intelligent Design ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🔬 Science And Religion 🎯 Fine-Tuning Argument 🦴 Evolutionary Debates

God's Undertaker

Cosmology, biology, and history do not point away from a creator; they point toward one.

por John C. Lennox 2002 224 páginas

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🧬 Intelligent Design ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🔬 Science And Religion 🎯 Fine-Tuning Argument 🦴 Evolutionary Debates

Plagues and Peoples

por William H. McNeill • 1976

Athens and Rome fell to a force their strategists ignored: disease, not decadence.

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💡 Big History 🦠 Disease And Civilization 📜 Medical History 🌿 Environmental History 🧬 Coevolution

Plagues and Peoples

Athens and Rome fell to a force their strategists ignored: disease, not decadence.

por William H. McNeill 1976 368 páginas

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💡 Big History 🦠 Disease And Civilization 📜 Medical History 🌿 Environmental History 🧬 Coevolution

Mente abierta de par en par

por Steven Johnson • 1999

A writer makes his own brain the case study, and the findings rewrite the self.

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🧠 Pop Neuroscience 🧩 Cognitive Science 🗣️ Social Neuroscience 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology ⚗️ Neurochemistry

Mente abierta de par en par

A writer makes his own brain the case study, and the findings rewrite the self.

por Steven Johnson 1999 274 páginas

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🧠 Pop Neuroscience 🧩 Cognitive Science 🗣️ Social Neuroscience 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology ⚗️ Neurochemistry

Branding inconsciente

por Douglas Van Praet • 2012

The unconscious drives 95% of every purchase. The rules for reaching it, from neuroscience.

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🧠 Neuromarketing 🛒 Consumer Psychology 🏷️ Brand Strategy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌀 Unconscious Influence

Branding inconsciente

The unconscious drives 95% of every purchase. The rules for reaching it, from neuroscience.

por Douglas Van Praet 2012 288 páginas

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🧠 Neuromarketing 🛒 Consumer Psychology 🏷️ Brand Strategy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌀 Unconscious Influence

Your Brain Is a Time Machine

por Dean Buonomano • 2017

Your brain is a simulator of futures; physics suggests time may not flow at all.

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⏳ Time Perception 🕰️ Physics Of Time 🌗 Circadian Rhythms 🎭 Free Will 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Your Brain Is a Time Machine

Your brain is a simulator of futures; physics suggests time may not flow at all.

por Dean Buonomano 2017 304 páginas

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⏳ Time Perception 🕰️ Physics Of Time 🌗 Circadian Rhythms 🎭 Free Will 🧠 Consciousness Studies

The Vital Question

por Nick Lane • 2016

Complex life arose exactly once in 4 billion years. The reason: a hidden energy constraint.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Molecular Biology 🌋 Origin Of Life ⚡ Bioenergetics 🤝 Symbiosis

The Vital Question

Complex life arose exactly once in 4 billion years. The reason: a hidden energy constraint.

por Nick Lane 2016 368 páginas

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Molecular Biology 🌋 Origin Of Life ⚡ Bioenergetics 🤝 Symbiosis

The Consciousness Instinct

por Michael S. Gazzaniga • 2018

Consciousness isn't one network but a modular biological instinct, and silicon won't replicate it.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Modular Brain 🧬 Evolution Of Mind 🌱 Emergent Consciousness

The Consciousness Instinct

Consciousness isn't one network but a modular biological instinct, and silicon won't replicate it.

por Michael S. Gazzaniga 2018 288 páginas

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Modular Brain 🧬 Evolution Of Mind 🌱 Emergent Consciousness

The Magic of Reality

por Richard Dawkins • 2011

What makes the real world more magical than any myth? Evidence. And a few trillion galaxies.

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The Magic of Reality

What makes the real world more magical than any myth? Evidence. And a few trillion galaxies.

por Richard Dawkins 2011 272 páginas

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When Science Meets Religion

por Ian G. Barbour • 2000

Science and religion aren't enemies. But keeping them politely apart misses the point.

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📚 Science And Theology 🌿 Theology Of Nature 🌀 Process Theology 🧬 Evolution And Faith ⚡ Divine Action

When Science Meets Religion

Science and religion aren't enemies. But keeping them politely apart misses the point.

por Ian G. Barbour 2000 205 páginas

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📚 Science And Theology 🌿 Theology Of Nature 🌀 Process Theology 🧬 Evolution And Faith ⚡ Divine Action

The Philosophical Baby

por Alison Gopnik • 2003

Babies notice everything adults filter out. What children's minds reveal about truth, love, meaning.

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🧠 Developmental Psychology 👶 Child Cognition 🎭 Imagination And Play ⚖️ Moral Development 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Philosophical Baby

Babies notice everything adults filter out. What children's minds reveal about truth, love, meaning.

por Alison Gopnik 2003 304 páginas

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🧠 Developmental Psychology 👶 Child Cognition 🎭 Imagination And Play ⚖️ Moral Development 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Human Instinct

por Robert Winston • 2002

Your brain was built for the savannah. Why ancient instincts still steer every choice you make.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Sociobiology ⚡ Mismatch Theory 💕 Mate Preferences 👨‍👩‍👧 Kin Selection

Human Instinct

Your brain was built for the savannah. Why ancient instincts still steer every choice you make.

por Robert Winston 2002 352 páginas

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Sociobiology ⚡ Mismatch Theory 💕 Mate Preferences 👨‍👩‍👧 Kin Selection

At Home in the Universe

por Stuart A. Kauffman • 1995

Life begins as chemistry, not luck. The rules that organize molecules govern markets and innovation.

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🌐 Complexity Science 🌱 Origin Of Life 🌀 Self-Organization 🐦 Emergence 🔄 Adaptive Systems

At Home in the Universe

Life begins as chemistry, not luck. The rules that organize molecules govern markets and innovation.

por Stuart A. Kauffman 1995 336 páginas

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🌐 Complexity Science 🌱 Origin Of Life 🌀 Self-Organization 🐦 Emergence 🔄 Adaptive Systems

The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament

por Robert M. Sapolsky • 1997

Testosterone amplifies aggression, it doesn't cause it. Biology is never destiny.

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🧬 Behavioral Biology 📝 Science Essays ❤️ Stress And Health 🧪 Hormones And Behavior 🐒 Primate Behavior

The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament

Testosterone amplifies aggression, it doesn't cause it. Biology is never destiny.

por Robert M. Sapolsky 1997 288 páginas

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🧬 Behavioral Biology 📝 Science Essays ❤️ Stress And Health 🧪 Hormones And Behavior 🐒 Primate Behavior

The Cancer Code

por Jason Fung • 2020

Cancer is not genetic error but an ancient survival program. Its metabolic weakness is the key.

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🧬 Cancer Biology 🦠 Evolutionary Medicine ⚡ Cancer Metabolism 🛡️ Cancer Prevention 🔬 Metabolic Health

The Cancer Code

Cancer is not genetic error but an ancient survival program. Its metabolic weakness is the key.

por Jason Fung 2020 288 páginas

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🧬 Cancer Biology 🦠 Evolutionary Medicine ⚡ Cancer Metabolism 🛡️ Cancer Prevention 🔬 Metabolic Health

The Archaeology of Mind

por Jaak Panksepp • 2012

Ancient brain circuits shared with every mammal produce your emotions. Thought shows up late.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Neurobiology 🐾 Animal Emotions 🌊 Evolution Of Emotion

The Archaeology of Mind

Ancient brain circuits shared with every mammal produce your emotions. Thought shows up late.

por Jaak Panksepp 2012 592 páginas

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Neurobiology 🐾 Animal Emotions 🌊 Evolution Of Emotion

The Bonobo and the Atheist

por Frans de Waal • 2013

Chimps console, capuchins reject unfair pay; morality was ancient before religion claimed it.

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🐒 Primatology ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🫂 Animal Empathy 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 📊 Social Hierarchy

The Bonobo and the Atheist

Chimps console, capuchins reject unfair pay; morality was ancient before religion claimed it.

por Frans de Waal 2013 289 páginas

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🐒 Primatology ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🫂 Animal Empathy 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 📊 Social Hierarchy

Hidden Games

por Erez Yoeli • 2022

Luxury, outrage, stubborn beliefs: game theory shows the hidden logic behind your irrational side.

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🎲 Game Theory 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🦚 Costly Signaling 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔍 Motivated Reasoning

Hidden Games

Luxury, outrage, stubborn beliefs: game theory shows the hidden logic behind your irrational side.

por Erez Yoeli 2022 368 páginas

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🎲 Game Theory 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🦚 Costly Signaling 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔍 Motivated Reasoning

Monkeyluv

por Robert M. Sapolsky • 2005

A parasite can make a rat crave the smell of a cat, and that's only the beginning.

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🐒 Primate Behavior 🧬 Gene-Environment Interaction 🧠 Stress Physiology 🦠 Parasite Manipulation ⏳ Impulse Control

Monkeyluv

A parasite can make a rat crave the smell of a cat, and that's only the beginning.

por Robert M. Sapolsky 2005 209 páginas

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🐒 Primate Behavior 🧬 Gene-Environment Interaction 🧠 Stress Physiology 🦠 Parasite Manipulation ⏳ Impulse Control

The Lives of a Cell

por Lewis Thomas • 1974

You are a mobile habitat, viruses are roaming genes, and Earth is a single cell.

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📝 Science Essays 🌲 Nature Writing 🤝 Symbiosis 🦠 Cellular Biology 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

The Lives of a Cell

You are a mobile habitat, viruses are roaming genes, and Earth is a single cell.

por Lewis Thomas 1974 160 páginas

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📝 Science Essays 🌲 Nature Writing 🤝 Symbiosis 🦠 Cellular Biology 🧬 Evolutionary Biology

El arte y la ciencia de la alimentación baja en carbohidratos

por Jeff S. Volek • 2011

The clinical case for fat as fuel: why ketosis heals what carbohydrate overload breaks.

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🩸 Metabolic Health 🥩 Low-Carb Diets 🧬 Ancestral Health 🫀 Insulin Resistance 🧈 Saturated Fat

El arte y la ciencia de la alimentación baja en carbohidratos

The clinical case for fat as fuel: why ketosis heals what carbohydrate overload breaks.

por Jeff S. Volek 2011 316 páginas

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🩸 Metabolic Health 🥩 Low-Carb Diets 🧬 Ancestral Health 🫀 Insulin Resistance 🧈 Saturated Fat

Everyone Is African

por Daniel J. Fairbanks • 2015

Race isn't in your genes. Africa is, for everyone, and the science is unequivocal.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🔬 Scientific Racism 🧬 Genetic Ancestry 🌍 Out Of Africa 🏥 Health Disparities

Everyone Is African

Race isn't in your genes. Africa is, for everyone, and the science is unequivocal.

por Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 páginas

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🧬 Human Genetics 🔬 Scientific Racism 🧬 Genetic Ancestry 🌍 Out Of Africa 🏥 Health Disparities

When Men Behave Badly

por David M. Buss • 2021

Men misread smiles, women freeze: the evolutionary logic of sexual conflict.

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🔬 Evolutionary Psychology 💞 Mating Psychology ⚔️ Sexual Aggression 🚨 Intimate Partner Violence 🖤 Dark Personality Traits

When Men Behave Badly

Men misread smiles, women freeze: the evolutionary logic of sexual conflict.

por David M. Buss 2021 336 páginas

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🔬 Evolutionary Psychology 💞 Mating Psychology ⚔️ Sexual Aggression 🚨 Intimate Partner Violence 🖤 Dark Personality Traits

The Hidden Brain

por Shankar Vedantam • 2009

Your unconscious picks presidents, sentences criminals, and spawns terrorists without your consent.

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🧠 Unconscious Bias 🤔 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Psychology 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Group Dynamics 🧨 Radicalization

The Hidden Brain

Your unconscious picks presidents, sentences criminals, and spawns terrorists without your consent.

por Shankar Vedantam 2009 270 páginas

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🧠 Unconscious Bias 🤔 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Psychology 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Group Dynamics 🧨 Radicalization

The Pattern Seekers

por Simon Baron-Cohen • 2020

The cognitive engine behind human invention also explains autism; it emerged 70,000 years ago.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Autism Research ♾️ Neurodiversity 🔗 Causal Reasoning 🔍 Pattern Recognition

The Pattern Seekers

The cognitive engine behind human invention also explains autism; it emerged 70,000 years ago.

por Simon Baron-Cohen 2020 272 páginas

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Autism Research ♾️ Neurodiversity 🔗 Causal Reasoning 🔍 Pattern Recognition

Por qué mentimos

por David Livingstone Smith • 2004

Self-deception is an evolutionary tool: the lies you believe are the ones you sell best.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🎭 Self-Deception 🤥 Deception 🗡️ Machiavellian Intelligence 🌌 Unconscious Mind

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Self-deception is an evolutionary tool: the lies you believe are the ones you sell best.

por David Livingstone Smith 2004 256 páginas

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🎭 Self-Deception 🤥 Deception 🗡️ Machiavellian Intelligence 🌌 Unconscious Mind

Executive Functions

por Russell A. Barkley • 2012

Executive functions didn't evolve for cognition. They evolved to survive group life with strangers.

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🧠 Executive Function ⚖️ Self-Regulation 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⏳ Mental Time Travel 🤝 Social Cognition

Executive Functions

Executive functions didn't evolve for cognition. They evolved to survive group life with strangers.

por Russell A. Barkley 2012 244 páginas

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126 valoraciones

🧠 Executive Function ⚖️ Self-Regulation 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⏳ Mental Time Travel 🤝 Social Cognition

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