Évolution

Notre histoire ancestrale se dévoile à travers la science de pointe, révélant comment l'ADN, la sélection naturelle et les forces biologiques ont façonné tout, de nos corps à nos comportements. Des penseurs de premier plan éclairent la place de l'humanité dans la grande expérience de la nature, explorant le sexe, l'intelligence, la santé et les innombrables particularités qui font de nous des êtres uniquement humains.

Évolution Résumés de livres

Consciousness

par Susan Blackmore • 2003

Why brain activity feels like something, and the self that feels it is a fiction.

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🧠 Consciousness 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Neuroscience Of Self 🌈 Altered States 🤔 Free Will Debate

Consciousness

Why brain activity feels like something, and the self that feels it is a fiction.

par Susan Blackmore 2003 160 pages

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🧠 Consciousness 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Neuroscience Of Self 🌈 Altered States 🤔 Free Will Debate

Friends

par Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2021

Your brain caps your real friends at about 150. The rest is gossip.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Bonding 🗣️ Gossip And Language 🧠 Cognitive Limits 💑 Mate Selection

Friends

Your brain caps your real friends at about 150. The rest is gossip.

par Robin I.M. Dunbar 2021 432 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Bonding 🗣️ Gossip And Language 🧠 Cognitive Limits 💑 Mate Selection

Irréligion

par John Allen Paulos • 2008

A mathematician audits the classic proofs for God and finds them full of logical holes.

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💭 Arguments For God 🧩 Logical Fallacies 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Secular Ethics

Irréligion

A mathematician audits the classic proofs for God and finds them full of logical holes.

par John Allen Paulos 2008 158 pages

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💭 Arguments For God 🧩 Logical Fallacies 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Secular Ethics

Life on the Edge

par Johnjoe McFadden • 2014

Enzymes tunnel through walls, leaves harvest light near perfectly, birds steer by subatomic compass.

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🧬 Quantum Biology 🔬 Molecular Biology ⚛️ Biophysics 🌋 Origin Of Life 👃 Sensory Biology

Life on the Edge

Enzymes tunnel through walls, leaves harvest light near perfectly, birds steer by subatomic compass.

par Johnjoe McFadden 2014 368 pages

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🧬 Quantum Biology 🔬 Molecular Biology ⚛️ Biophysics 🌋 Origin Of Life 👃 Sensory Biology

War and Peace and War

par Peter Turchin • 2005

Empires aren't conquered. They dissolve from within, on a schedule that mathematics can model.

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🌀 Imperial Cycles 📉 Inequality And Collapse 🔢 Quantitative History 🏹 Frontier Societies ⚔️ Warfare And State Building

War and Peace and War

Empires aren't conquered. They dissolve from within, on a schedule that mathematics can model.

par Peter Turchin 2005 416 pages

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🌀 Imperial Cycles 📉 Inequality And Collapse 🔢 Quantitative History 🏹 Frontier Societies ⚔️ Warfare And State Building

The Ancestor's Tale

par Richard Dawkins • 2004

Evolution traced backward, from human to the first cell: a pilgrimage through shared ancestry.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology ⏳ Deep Time 🔄 Convergent Evolution 💥 Mass Extinctions 🌿 Adaptive Radiation

The Ancestor's Tale

Evolution traced backward, from human to the first cell: a pilgrimage through shared ancestry.

par Richard Dawkins 2004 673 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology ⏳ Deep Time 🔄 Convergent Evolution 💥 Mass Extinctions 🌿 Adaptive Radiation

The Happy Brain

par Dean Burnett • 2018

A neuroscientist reveals the messy brain circuits behind happiness, and why the chase backfires.

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😊 Positive Psychology 🧠 Brain Chemistry 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Connection 💼 Meaningful Work

The Happy Brain

A neuroscientist reveals the messy brain circuits behind happiness, and why the chase backfires.

par Dean Burnett 2018

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😊 Positive Psychology 🧠 Brain Chemistry 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Connection 💼 Meaningful Work

The Carnivore Code

par Paul Saladino • 2020

Vegetables fight back with toxins. The case for an all-meat diet that resolves chronic illness.

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🥩 Carnivore Diet 🌱 Plant Toxins 🧬 Evolutionary Nutrition ⚡ Metabolic Health 💉 Insulin Resistance

The Carnivore Code

Vegetables fight back with toxins. The case for an all-meat diet that resolves chronic illness.

par Paul Saladino 2020 368 pages

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🥩 Carnivore Diet 🌱 Plant Toxins 🧬 Evolutionary Nutrition ⚡ Metabolic Health 💉 Insulin Resistance

Your Inner Fish

par Neil Shubin • 2008

Your wrist is a fish fin, your hiccup a gill. The body's 3.5-billion-year fossil record, decoded.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Comparative Anatomy ⏳ Deep Time 🌍 Human Origins 💊 Evolutionary Medicine

Your Inner Fish

Your wrist is a fish fin, your hiccup a gill. The body's 3.5-billion-year fossil record, decoded.

par Neil Shubin 2008 229 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Comparative Anatomy ⏳ Deep Time 🌍 Human Origins 💊 Evolutionary Medicine

The End of Gender

par Debra Soh • 2020

A sex researcher on why sex is binary and most gender-questioning kids outgrow it.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚧️ Transgender Debate ♂️♀️ Sex Differences 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Dysphoria ✍️ Gender-Critical Feminism

The End of Gender

A sex researcher on why sex is binary and most gender-questioning kids outgrow it.

par Debra Soh 2020 307 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚧️ Transgender Debate ♂️♀️ Sex Differences 🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Dysphoria ✍️ Gender-Critical Feminism

Conscience

par Patricia S. Churchland • 2019

Our conscience grew out of the brain's drive to care, not from God or reason.

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🧪 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 🫂 Attachment Theory 💕 Empathy

Conscience

Our conscience grew out of the brain's drive to care, not from God or reason.

par Patricia S. Churchland 2019 226 pages

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🧪 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 🫂 Attachment Theory 💕 Empathy

The Music of Life

par Denis Noble • 2006

The genome is a database, not a dictator. Life runs on systems, not commands.

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🧬 Systems Biology ↕️ Multilevel Causation 🧩 Biological Complexity 📚 Philosophy Of Biology 🔗 Systems Thinking

The Music of Life

The genome is a database, not a dictator. Life runs on systems, not commands.

par Denis Noble 2006 153 pages

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🧬 Systems Biology ↕️ Multilevel Causation 🧩 Biological Complexity 📚 Philosophy Of Biology 🔗 Systems Thinking

Harnessing Complexity

par Robert Axelrod • 2000

You can't control a complex system, but you can harness its evolutionary machinery to steer it.

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🧩 Complexity Science 🧠 Complex Adaptive Systems 💡 Systems Thinking 🌱 Emergence 💼 Evolutionary Economics

Harnessing Complexity

You can't control a complex system, but you can harness its evolutionary machinery to steer it.

par Robert Axelrod 2000 207 pages

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🧩 Complexity Science 🧠 Complex Adaptive Systems 💡 Systems Thinking 🌱 Emergence 💼 Evolutionary Economics

The Origin of Wealth

par Eric D. Beinhocker • 2006

Traditional economics assumed equilibrium. Actually, economies evolve through trial and error.

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🧩 Complexity Economics 🧬 Evolutionary Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🕸️ Network Effects 💥 Creative Destruction

The Origin of Wealth

Traditional economics assumed equilibrium. Actually, economies evolve through trial and error.

par Eric D. Beinhocker 2006 527 pages

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🧩 Complexity Economics 🧬 Evolutionary Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🕸️ Network Effects 💥 Creative Destruction

Move Your DNA

par Katy Bowman • 2014

Your body starves for motion it no longer gets; exercise alone isn't the answer.

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏞️ Natural Movement 🪑 Sedentary Lifestyle 🏋️ Functional Movement ⚙️ Body Mechanics

Move Your DNA

Your body starves for motion it no longer gets; exercise alone isn't the answer.

par Katy Bowman 2014 301 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏞️ Natural Movement 🪑 Sedentary Lifestyle 🏋️ Functional Movement ⚙️ Body Mechanics

L'Évolution de toute chose

par Matt Ridley • 2015

The same undirected process that built the eye also built language, money, and the internet.

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🕸️ Spontaneous Order 🎭 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History ⚙️ Technological Evolution 🌐 Decentralization

L'Évolution de toute chose

The same undirected process that built the eye also built language, money, and the internet.

par Matt Ridley 2015 368 pages

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🕸️ Spontaneous Order 🎭 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History ⚙️ Technological Evolution 🌐 Decentralization

Just Babies

par Paul Bloom • 2013

Three-month-olds know right from wrong. The rest of morality is deciding who counts.

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🧠 Moral Psychology 👶 Innate Morality 💞 Empathy Research 👥 In-Group Bias 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Just Babies

Three-month-olds know right from wrong. The rest of morality is deciding who counts.

par Paul Bloom 2013 273 pages

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🧠 Moral Psychology 👶 Innate Morality 💞 Empathy Research 👥 In-Group Bias 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

L'avenir de l'humanité

par Michio Kaku • 2018

Becoming multi-planetary isn't just about rockets. It requires redesigning the human body itself.

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🏗️ Space Colonization 🚀 Space Travel 🔮 Futurism 🪐 Planetary Science 🧬 Genetic Engineering

L'avenir de l'humanité

Becoming multi-planetary isn't just about rockets. It requires redesigning the human body itself.

par Michio Kaku 2018 368 pages

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🏗️ Space Colonization 🚀 Space Travel 🔮 Futurism 🪐 Planetary Science 🧬 Genetic Engineering

How Life Works

par Philip Ball • 2023

Genes don't give orders; cells decide for themselves. Biology's central metaphor was wrong.

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🧬 Molecular Biology 🔬 Systems Biology 🌀 Self-Organization 🧫 Epigenetics 🤔 Philosophy Of Biology

How Life Works

Genes don't give orders; cells decide for themselves. Biology's central metaphor was wrong.

par Philip Ball 2023 552 pages

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🧬 Molecular Biology 🔬 Systems Biology 🌀 Self-Organization 🧫 Epigenetics 🤔 Philosophy Of Biology

A Brief History of Earth

par Andrew H. Knoll • 2021

Earth's four-billion-year story: how rock spawned life, and why that knowledge now falls to us.

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🌍 Earth History 🧬 Origin Of Life 🔀 Plate Tectonics 💀 Mass Extinctions 🏭 Anthropocene

A Brief History of Earth

Earth's four-billion-year story: how rock spawned life, and why that knowledge now falls to us.

par Andrew H. Knoll 2021 272 pages

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🌍 Earth History 🧬 Origin Of Life 🔀 Plate Tectonics 💀 Mass Extinctions 🏭 Anthropocene

Identically Different

par Tim Spector • 2012

Your DNA isn't sealed: daily choices edit it, and the edits can be inherited.

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🧬 Epigenetics 🧠 Behavioral Genetics 👯 Twin Studies ⚖️ Nature Nurture Debate 👶 Early Development

Identically Different

Your DNA isn't sealed: daily choices edit it, and the edits can be inherited.

par Tim Spector 2012 288 pages

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🧬 Epigenetics 🧠 Behavioral Genetics 👯 Twin Studies ⚖️ Nature Nurture Debate 👶 Early Development

Hypersensibles

par Elaine N. Aron • 1996

Deeply sensitive and born that way: for the one in five, a guide beyond survival.

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🧠 Sensory Processing 🔬 Innate Temperament ⚡ Overstimulation 🌱 Orchid Children 💪 Sensitivity As Strength

Hypersensibles

Deeply sensitive and born that way: for the one in five, a guide beyond survival.

par Elaine N. Aron 1996 304 pages

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🧠 Sensory Processing 🔬 Innate Temperament ⚡ Overstimulation 🌱 Orchid Children 💪 Sensitivity As Strength

Réenchanter la science

par Rupert Sheldrake • 2012

Science rests on ten assumptions it never proved. The experiments that could topple them.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Extended Mind 🔮 Psychic Research 🌿 Holistic Medicine

Réenchanter la science

Science rests on ten assumptions it never proved. The experiments that could topple them.

par Rupert Sheldrake 2012 400 pages

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Extended Mind 🔮 Psychic Research 🌿 Holistic Medicine

Hacking Darwin

par Jamie Metzl • 2019

Humans are taking control of evolution; the tools to design our children are already here.

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🧬 Genetic Engineering ✂️ Gene Editing ⏳ Longevity Science ⚖️ Bioethics 🤖 Transhumanism

Hacking Darwin

Humans are taking control of evolution; the tools to design our children are already here.

par Jamie Metzl 2019 327 pages

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🧬 Genetic Engineering ✂️ Gene Editing ⏳ Longevity Science ⚖️ Bioethics 🤖 Transhumanism

How Pleasure Works

par Paul Bloom • 2010

You don't enjoy what you sense; you enjoy what you believe. The underlying nature of pleasure.

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🧠 Hedonic Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💰 Behavioral Economics 🔮 Essentialism 🎨 Aesthetics

How Pleasure Works

You don't enjoy what you sense; you enjoy what you believe. The underlying nature of pleasure.

par Paul Bloom 2010 302 pages

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🧠 Hedonic Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💰 Behavioral Economics 🔮 Essentialism 🎨 Aesthetics

The Attention Fix

par Anders Hansen • 2024

Your brain was built for hunting, not scrolling. The mismatch explains why you cannot focus.

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📱 Digital Attention 📵 Phone Addiction 🧠 Dopamine And Reward ⚡ Stress Biology

The Attention Fix

Your brain was built for hunting, not scrolling. The mismatch explains why you cannot focus.

par Anders Hansen 2024 206 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 📱 Digital Attention 📵 Phone Addiction 🧠 Dopamine And Reward ⚡ Stress Biology

Descartes' Baby

par Paul Bloom • 2004

We are born seeing souls and bodies as separate. That illusion shapes art, disgust, and morality.

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🧠 Cognitive Science 👶 Developmental Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 💭 Theory Of Mind

Descartes' Baby

We are born seeing souls and bodies as separate. That illusion shapes art, disgust, and morality.

par Paul Bloom 2004 288 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Science 👶 Developmental Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 💭 Theory Of Mind

The Forgetting Machine

par Rodrigo Quian Quiroga • 2017

Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧠 Constructive Memory 🧠 Role Of Forgetting 🧠 Neural Representation

The Forgetting Machine

Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.

par Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 2017 170 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧠 Constructive Memory 🧠 Role Of Forgetting 🧠 Neural Representation

Happy Brain

par Dean Burnett • 2018

Happiness is built from brain chemistry, social wiring, and home; chasing it directly backfires.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 😊 Happiness Studies ⚗️ Neurochemistry 👥 Social Brain 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Happy Brain

Happiness is built from brain chemistry, social wiring, and home; chasing it directly backfires.

par Dean Burnett 2018 352 pages

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Emotion 😊 Happiness Studies ⚗️ Neurochemistry 👥 Social Brain 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Unweaving the Rainbow

par Richard Dawkins • 2000

Keats was wrong: explaining the rainbow reveals an elegance no myth can match.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology ✨ Science And Wonder 🔍 Scientific Skepticism 📜 Genetic Heritage 👁️ Perception And Reality

Unweaving the Rainbow

Keats was wrong: explaining the rainbow reveals an elegance no myth can match.

par Richard Dawkins 2000 352 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology ✨ Science And Wonder 🔍 Scientific Skepticism 📜 Genetic Heritage 👁️ Perception And Reality

The Believing Brain

par Michael Shermer • 2011

Your beliefs came first. Every rational argument arrived afterward to defend them.

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🧠 Belief Formation 🔍 Scientific Skepticism 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories ⚖️ Moral Foundations 🗳️ Political Psychology

The Believing Brain

Your beliefs came first. Every rational argument arrived afterward to defend them.

par Michael Shermer 2011 400 pages

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🧠 Belief Formation 🔍 Scientific Skepticism 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories ⚖️ Moral Foundations 🗳️ Political Psychology

A Natural History of Human Thinking

par Michael Tomasello • 2014

Apes think alone. We think together. The two-step evolution that made the difference.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Cognitive Evolution 🤝 Social Cognition 🗣️ Language Origins 🦍 Ape Cognition

A Natural History of Human Thinking

Apes think alone. We think together. The two-step evolution that made the difference.

par Michael Tomasello 2014 192 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Cognitive Evolution 🤝 Social Cognition 🗣️ Language Origins 🦍 Ape Cognition

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

par Stephen Webb • 2002

Fifty answers to Fermi's paradox: we're alone, we're doomed, or we're in a galactic zoo.

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🌌 Extraterrestrial Life 🔬 Astrobiology 🤔 Fermi Paradox 🌍 Rare Earth Hypothesis 🚦 Great Filter

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

Fifty answers to Fermi's paradox: we're alone, we're doomed, or we're in a galactic zoo.

par Stephen Webb 2002 288 pages

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🌌 Extraterrestrial Life 🔬 Astrobiology 🤔 Fermi Paradox 🌍 Rare Earth Hypothesis 🚦 Great Filter

Une (très) brève histoire de la vie sur Terre

par Henry Gee • 2021

4.6 billion years in twelve chapters. Every dynasty crumbles. The book's last page is about us.

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🕰️ Deep Time 🌍 Natural History 📜 Big History 💀 Mass Extinctions 🧬 Origin Of Life

Une (très) brève histoire de la vie sur Terre

4.6 billion years in twelve chapters. Every dynasty crumbles. The book's last page is about us.

par Henry Gee 2021 278 pages

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🕰️ Deep Time 🌍 Natural History 📜 Big History 💀 Mass Extinctions 🧬 Origin Of Life

The Human Past

par Chris Scarre • 2005

Human history didn't start with writing. It started 3 million years ago with a stone tool.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistoric Archaeology 🌿 Cultural Ecology 🔬 Archaeological Methods 🪨 Stone Age Tools

The Human Past

Human history didn't start with writing. It started 3 million years ago with a stone tool.

par Chris Scarre 2005 784 pages

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistoric Archaeology 🌿 Cultural Ecology 🔬 Archaeological Methods 🪨 Stone Age Tools

Mama's Last Hug

par Frans de Waal • 2019

Before humans felt, animals did. A primatologist on grief, empathy, and justice in the wild.

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🧠 Animal Cognition 📊 Comparative Psychology 💕 Animal Emotions 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Ethology

Mama's Last Hug

Before humans felt, animals did. A primatologist on grief, empathy, and justice in the wild.

par Frans de Waal 2019 352 pages

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🧠 Animal Cognition 📊 Comparative Psychology 💕 Animal Emotions 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Ethology

Human Evolution

par Bernard Wood • 2005

Seven million years of dead ends and cousins: human evolution is a bush, not a ladder.

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🦴 Paleoanthropology 🔍 Human Origins 🪨 Fossil Evidence 🧬 Ancient Dna 👣 Hominin Species

Human Evolution

Seven million years of dead ends and cousins: human evolution is a bush, not a ladder.

par Bernard Wood 2005 160 pages

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🦴 Paleoanthropology 🔍 Human Origins 🪨 Fossil Evidence 🧬 Ancient Dna 👣 Hominin Species

Origin Story

par David Christian • 2008

How energy and information built the universe, life, and us. What they mean for our future.

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🌌 Big History 🦴 Human Origins ⚡ Energy And Complexity 🗣️ Cultural Evolution ⏳ Deep Time

Origin Story

How energy and information built the universe, life, and us. What they mean for our future.

par David Christian 2008 368 pages

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🌌 Big History 🦴 Human Origins ⚡ Energy And Complexity 🗣️ Cultural Evolution ⏳ Deep Time

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

par Ken Wilber • 1995

Evolution doesn't stop at biology: the same pattern drives matter into life, mind, and spirit.

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🌱 Evolutionary Spirituality 🧠 Consciousness Evolution 📊 Developmental Stages 🔬 Mysticism And Science ☯️ Nondual Awareness

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

Evolution doesn't stop at biology: the same pattern drives matter into life, mind, and spirit.

par Ken Wilber 1995 884 pages

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🌱 Evolutionary Spirituality 🧠 Consciousness Evolution 📊 Developmental Stages 🔬 Mysticism And Science ☯️ Nondual Awareness

Why We Believe What We Believe

par Andrew B. Newberg • 2006

Prayer dims the self, meditation sharpens focus: the neural signature of why you believe.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perception And Reality 🧱 Belief Formation 💊 Placebo Effect 🧘 Spiritual Experiences

Why We Believe What We Believe

Prayer dims the self, meditation sharpens focus: the neural signature of why you believe.

par Andrew B. Newberg 2006 336 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Perception And Reality 🧱 Belief Formation 💊 Placebo Effect 🧘 Spiritual Experiences

Moral Minds

par Marc Hauser • 2006

Morality runs on innate grammar, like language, shared across cultures, revealed in the brain.

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 👶 Innate Morality 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience ⚡ Moral Intuition

Moral Minds

Morality runs on innate grammar, like language, shared across cultures, revealed in the brain.

par Marc Hauser 2006 528 pages

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 👶 Innate Morality 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience ⚡ Moral Intuition

Sapiens

par David Vandermeulen • 2020

One species of ape conquered the planet, not with claws or tools, but with shared stories.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🪨 Prehistoric Life 🧠 Cognitive Evolution 📖 Cultural Myths 🌍 Big History

Sapiens

One species of ape conquered the planet, not with claws or tools, but with shared stories.

par David Vandermeulen 2020 248 pages

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🧬 Human Evolution 🪨 Prehistoric Life 🧠 Cognitive Evolution 📖 Cultural Myths 🌍 Big History

The Science of Love

par Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2012

Love, heartbreak, and religious ecstasy run on the same ancient neural circuitry. Here's how.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Mate Selection 🔗 Pair Bonding 🤝 Social Bonding 🕸️ Social Networks

The Science of Love

Love, heartbreak, and religious ecstasy run on the same ancient neural circuitry. Here's how.

par Robin I.M. Dunbar 2012 320 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Mate Selection 🔗 Pair Bonding 🤝 Social Bonding 🕸️ Social Networks

The Ten Types of Human

par Dexter Dias • 2018

Your brain runs ten minds. One feels another's pain. One learns to enjoy causing it.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Behavioral Science 🤝 Social Bonding 💕 Empathy 💔 Psychological Trauma

The Ten Types of Human

Your brain runs ten minds. One feels another's pain. One learns to enjoy causing it.

par Dexter Dias 2018

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Behavioral Science 🤝 Social Bonding 💕 Empathy 💔 Psychological Trauma

The Genius in All of Us

par David Shenk • 2010

Genes are not a blueprint but a responding system. Talent is built, not born.

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧪 Epigenetics 🏋️ Deliberate Practice 🌱 Talent Development 🧠 Growth Mindset

The Genius in All of Us

Genes are not a blueprint but a responding system. Talent is built, not born.

par David Shenk 2010 320 pages

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧪 Epigenetics 🏋️ Deliberate Practice 🌱 Talent Development 🧠 Growth Mindset

Sociobiology

par Edward O. Wilson • 1975

Every society, from ant to human, is a gene-spreading machine; the logic is identical.

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🧬 Social Evolution 🫂 Kin Selection 📡 Sociobiology 🌿 Behavioral Ecology 🔮 Emergent Properties

Sociobiology

Every society, from ant to human, is a gene-spreading machine; the logic is identical.

par Edward O. Wilson 1975 720 pages

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🧬 Social Evolution 🫂 Kin Selection 📡 Sociobiology 🌿 Behavioral Ecology 🔮 Emergent Properties

Breaking the Spell

par Daniel C. Dennett • 2006

Our brains are built for belief. How evolution, cognition, and culture invented the gods.

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🔬 Science Of Religion 🧬 Evolution Of Religion 🧠 Psychology Of Belief ❌ New Atheism 🛐 Origins Of Religion

Breaking the Spell

Our brains are built for belief. How evolution, cognition, and culture invented the gods.

par Daniel C. Dennett 2006 464 pages

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🔬 Science Of Religion 🧬 Evolution Of Religion 🧠 Psychology Of Belief ❌ New Atheism 🛐 Origins Of Religion

Why?

par Mario Livio • 2017

Knowledge gaps itch. Discoveries delight. They are not the same drive.

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🧠 Cognitive Science 🔍 Intellectual Curiosity 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation 📚 Learning Science 🧬 Human Evolution

Why?

Knowledge gaps itch. Discoveries delight. They are not the same drive.

par Mario Livio 2017 272 pages

3.53

500+ évaluations

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Mating Intelligence Unleashed

par Glenn Geher • 2012

Evolution wired your brain for courtship: the hidden skills that run your love life.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Mating Psychology 🦚 Sexual Selection 💘 Mate Preferences 🕶️ Dark Triad Traits

Mating Intelligence Unleashed

Evolution wired your brain for courtship: the hidden skills that run your love life.

par Glenn Geher 2012 298 pages

3.70

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Drunk

par Edward Slingerland • 2021

Getting drunk made us human. How alcohol built civilization, and where the bargain went wrong.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🍺 History Of Alcohol 🌍 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History 🍄 Ritual And Intoxication

Drunk

Getting drunk made us human. How alcohol built civilization, and where the bargain went wrong.

par Edward Slingerland 2021 369 pages

3.81

3 000+ évaluations

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🍺 History Of Alcohol 🌍 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History 🍄 Ritual And Intoxication

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