Evolution
Our ancient story unfolds through cutting-edge science, revealing how DNA, natural selection, and biological forces have shaped everything from our bodies to our behaviors. Leading thinkers illuminate humanity's place in nature's grand experiment, exploring sex, intelligence, health, and the countless quirks that make us uniquely human.
Evolution Book Summaries
The Social Conquest of Earth
Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Anthropology
Psychology
The Social Conquest of Earth
Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Anthropology
Psychology
Live Long, Die Short
Your aging is 70% under your control. The manual is buried in your ancestors' daily life.
Health
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Medical
Live Long, Die Short
Your aging is 70% under your control. The manual is buried in your ancestors' daily life.
Health
Self Help
Science
Personal Development
Medical
The Power of Not Thinking
AI beats us at chess but cannot pick up a pencil. The intelligence in your bones.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Anthropology
Mind, Body & Spirit
The Power of Not Thinking
AI beats us at chess but cannot pick up a pencil. The intelligence in your bones.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Anthropology
Mind, Body & Spirit
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Anxiety is not fear. It is the brain's hesitation state when goals collide, with its own circuitry.
Psychology
Science
Psychiatry
Biology
Mental Health
The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Anxiety is not fear. It is the brain's hesitation state when goals collide, with its own circuitry.
Psychology
Science
Psychiatry
Biology
Mental Health
The Social Paradox
Autonomy is the sugar of modern life: everywhere, irresistible, and quietly ruining your well-being.
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Evolution
Sociology
The Social Paradox
Autonomy is the sugar of modern life: everywhere, irresistible, and quietly ruining your well-being.
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Evolution
Sociology
Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World
Your automatic mind betrays you daily. Here is why, and how to take back control.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Economics
Evolution
Decision Making and Rationality in the Modern World
Your automatic mind betrays you daily. Here is why, and how to take back control.
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Economics
Evolution
All Things Are Full of Gods
Physicalism cannot explain a single conscious thought. The case for mind as reality's foundation.
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
Science
Psychology
All Things Are Full of Gods
Physicalism cannot explain a single conscious thought. The case for mind as reality's foundation.
Philosophy
Religion
Theology
Science
Psychology
Aping Mankind
Brain and genes can't contain a mind: the fatal gap in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Evolution
Biology
Aping Mankind
Brain and genes can't contain a mind: the fatal gap in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Evolution
Biology
Words and Rules
Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.
Science
Psychology
Grammar
Writing
Philosophy
Words and Rules
Jogged is rule, bought is memory. Two systems, one verb, and their collisions explain language.
Science
Psychology
Grammar
Writing
Philosophy
The Diversity of Life
Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.
Science
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Environment
The Diversity of Life
Earth holds 10 to 100 million species. We have named 1.4 million. The rest are vanishing now.
Science
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Environment
Science of Consequences
Pigeons learning, genes activating, societies changing: one set of rules governs them all.
Psychology
Science
Biology
Evolution
Animals
Science of Consequences
Pigeons learning, genes activating, societies changing: one set of rules governs them all.
Psychology
Science
Biology
Evolution
Animals
Born to Rebel
Firstborns guard the status quo; laterborns upend it. The pattern holds from nursery to revolution.
Psychology
Science
History
Sociology
Evolution
Born to Rebel
Firstborns guard the status quo; laterborns upend it. The pattern holds from nursery to revolution.
Psychology
Science
History
Sociology
Evolution
Understanding Living Systems
DNA is not your destiny: the cell rewrites its genome, and organisms direct evolution.
Science
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Nature
Understanding Living Systems
DNA is not your destiny: the cell rewrites its genome, and organisms direct evolution.
Science
Biology
Evolution
Philosophy
Nature
How to Sleep Like a Caveman
Fragmented sleep is normal. An evolutionary approach to insomnia that changes how you wake.
Health
Science
Self Help
Psychology
Biology
How to Sleep Like a Caveman
Fragmented sleep is normal. An evolutionary approach to insomnia that changes how you wake.
Health
Science
Self Help
Psychology
Biology
A Natural History of Human Emotions
Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.
Psychology
History
Science
Sociology
Anthropology
A Natural History of Human Emotions
Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.
Psychology
History
Science
Sociology
Anthropology
Social Darwinism in American Thought
America's embrace of social Darwinism was never about the science. Its collapse wasn't either.
History
Sociology
Politics
Philosophy
America
Social Darwinism in American Thought
America's embrace of social Darwinism was never about the science. Its collapse wasn't either.
History
Sociology
Politics
Philosophy
America
The Frontiers of Knowledge
Physics, history, brain science: three frontiers where every answer opens a bigger question.
Philosophy
Science
History
Psychology
Consciousness
The Frontiers of Knowledge
Physics, history, brain science: three frontiers where every answer opens a bigger question.
Philosophy
Science
History
Psychology
Consciousness
War! What Is It Good For?
Ten thousand years of war made the world ten times safer. The paradox behind that claim.
History
War
Military
Politics
Sociology
War! What Is It Good For?
Ten thousand years of war made the world ten times safer. The paradox behind that claim.
History
War
Military
Politics
Sociology
Evolution Controversy, The
Four schools, three definitions, one unspoken fight: the evolution controversy, surveyed.
Evolution
Science
Biology
Philosophy
Religion
Evolution Controversy, The
Four schools, three definitions, one unspoken fight: the evolution controversy, surveyed.
Evolution
Science
Biology
Philosophy
Religion
Virtuous Violence
Perpetrators of violence usually believe their actions are justified. A unified theory of why.
Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Philosophy
Science
Virtuous Violence
Perpetrators of violence usually believe their actions are justified. A unified theory of why.
Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Philosophy
Science
Animal Architects
From termite towers to bowerbird galleries, animal architecture is the fossil record of cognition.
Science
Animals
Biology
Nature
Evolution
Animal Architects
From termite towers to bowerbird galleries, animal architecture is the fossil record of cognition.
Science
Animals
Biology
Nature
Evolution
Political Animals
Democracy asks 150-person brains to govern millions. The predictable failures, and the fix.
Politics
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Anthropology
Political Animals
Democracy asks 150-person brains to govern millions. The predictable failures, and the fix.
Politics
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Anthropology
Mother Brain
Maternal instinct is a fairytale. Parenthood reshapes the brain for everyone who cares for a baby.
Science
Psychology
Parenting
Biology
Mental Health
Mother Brain
Maternal instinct is a fairytale. Parenthood reshapes the brain for everyone who cares for a baby.
Science
Psychology
Parenting
Biology
Mental Health
Diversity and Complexity
Diversity isn't a slogan: it's a measurable property with predictable benefits and knowable limits.
Science
Economics
Business
Biology
Ecology
Diversity and Complexity
Diversity isn't a slogan: it's a measurable property with predictable benefits and knowable limits.
Science
Economics
Business
Biology
Ecology
The Greatest Show on Earth
From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Natural History
Zoology
The Greatest Show on Earth
From radioactive rocks to lizards that grew new heads in 37 years: the evidence for evolution.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Natural History
Zoology
A Mind of Her Own
Why women play it safe, choose mates carefully, and bond like sisters: an evolutionary account.
Psychology
Evolution
Science
Biology
Feminism
A Mind of Her Own
Why women play it safe, choose mates carefully, and bond like sisters: an evolutionary account.
Psychology
Evolution
Science
Biology
Feminism
War, Peace, and Human Nature
War began with farming, not in our genes. Twelve millennia of silence before that upends everything.
Science
History
Biology
Evolution
Psychology
War, Peace, and Human Nature
War began with farming, not in our genes. Twelve millennia of silence before that upends everything.
Science
History
Biology
Evolution
Psychology
The Good Virus
Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.
Science
Biology
Medicine
History
Health
The Good Virus
Bacteria-eating viruses saved lives for a century. Then the West abandoned them as antibiotics rose.
Science
Biology
Medicine
History
Health
Reading in the Brain
The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.
Science
Psychology
Language
Education
Biology
Reading in the Brain
The brain never evolved to read. Writing systems adapted to the brain's older circuits instead.
Science
Psychology
Language
Education
Biology
The Ethnic Phenomenon
Ethnic groups are extended families. The biology of nepotism powers prejudice and empire.
Sociology
Anthropology
Science
Biology
Evolution
The Ethnic Phenomenon
Ethnic groups are extended families. The biology of nepotism powers prejudice and empire.
Sociology
Anthropology
Science
Biology
Evolution
Animal Architecture
Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.
Science
Nature
Biology
Animals
Zoology
Animal Architecture
Termites air-condition, beavers dam, spiders weave: animal engineering that never needed a plan.
Science
Nature
Biology
Animals
Zoology
The Mind-Body Method
Your brain evolved for motion. A sedentary life is quietly dismantling your focus, mood, and memory.
Psychology
Self Help
Health
Mental Health
Science
The Mind-Body Method
Your brain evolved for motion. A sedentary life is quietly dismantling your focus, mood, and memory.
Psychology
Self Help
Health
Mental Health
Science
I Think, Therefore I Lie
Self-deception evolved first, lying to others came second, and objectivity was never the goal.
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Sociology
Science
I Think, Therefore I Lie
Self-deception evolved first, lying to others came second, and objectivity was never the goal.
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Sociology
Science
Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine
The same cellular engines that made complex life possible are quietly driving your slow decline.
Science
Health
Medicine
Biology
Nutrition
Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine
The same cellular engines that made complex life possible are quietly driving your slow decline.
Science
Health
Medicine
Biology
Nutrition
La maldición del hombre mono
Why evolution left humans perpetually dissatisfied, and how training attention can change that.
Science
Psychology
Evolution
Biology
Anthropology
La maldición del hombre mono
Why evolution left humans perpetually dissatisfied, and how training attention can change that.
Science
Psychology
Evolution
Biology
Anthropology
Religion in Human Evolution
Before belief, play. The story from animal ritual to Axial sages who questioned every god.
Religion
History
Anthropology
Sociology
Science
Religion in Human Evolution
Before belief, play. The story from animal ritual to Axial sages who questioned every god.
Religion
History
Anthropology
Sociology
Science
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships
Two brains are needed to build one: the science of how relationships physically sculpt the mind.
Psychology
Science
Relationships
Mental Health
Biology
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships
Two brains are needed to build one: the science of how relationships physically sculpt the mind.
Psychology
Science
Relationships
Mental Health
Biology
Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
Men chase youth, women chase resources. Here is how to use that knowledge to find your match.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Evolution
Sex
Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
Men chase youth, women chase resources. Here is how to use that knowledge to find your match.
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Evolution
Sex
