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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

How to Create a Mind
by Ray Kurzweil • 2012
The brain runs on 300 million pattern recognizers. Copy that hierarchy, and human-level AI is next.
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🤖 Artificial Intelligence🧠 Cognitive Science💻 Computational Neuroscience
How to Create a Mind Summary
How to Create a Mind
The brain runs on 300 million pattern recognizers. Copy that hierarchy, and human-level AI is next.
by Ray Kurzweil 2012 336 pages
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7k+ ratings
🤖 Artificial Intelligence🧠 Cognitive Science💻 Computational Neuroscience
The Blank Slate
by Steven Pinker • 2002
Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.
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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🧪 Behavioral Genetics
The Blank Slate Summary
The Blank Slate
Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.
by Steven Pinker 2002 560 pages
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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🧪 Behavioral Genetics
Moral Tribes
by Joshua D. Greene • 2013
Your moral brain has a tribal mode and a modern mode. The tribal one keeps winning.
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🧠 Moral Psychology⚖️ Utilitarianism🔍 Cognitive Biases
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Your moral brain has a tribal mode and a modern mode. The tribal one keeps winning.
by Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 pages
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🧠 Moral Psychology⚖️ Utilitarianism🔍 Cognitive Biases
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky • 2015
Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.
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🧬 Accelerated Evolution🖖 First Contact🕷️ Uplifted Species
Children of Time Summary
Children of Time
Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.
by Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 600 pages
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🧬 Accelerated Evolution🖖 First Contact🕷️ Uplifted Species
The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins • 1986
A blind, unthinking algorithm built every wing, eye, and brain on Earth; no designer required.
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🧬 Natural Selection⌚ Design Argument🧩 Gene-Centric Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker Summary
The Blind Watchmaker
A blind, unthinking algorithm built every wing, eye, and brain on Earth; no designer required.
by Richard Dawkins 1986 466 pages
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🧬 Natural Selection⌚ Design Argument🧩 Gene-Centric Evolution
Why We Love
by Anna Machin • 2022
Love is a survival system, not a feeling. Romantic love is its rarest and strangest form.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🔗 Attachment Theory💑 Relationship Science
Why We Love Summary
Why We Love
Love is a survival system, not a feeling. Romantic love is its rarest and strangest form.
by Anna Machin 2022 315 pages
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205 ratings
🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🔗 Attachment Theory💑 Relationship Science
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett • 2020
Your brain's real job is body regulation, not thinking, and that changes everything.
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🧠 Neuroscience Myths🧬 Brain Evolution🔮 Predictive Processing
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain Summary
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
Your brain's real job is body regulation, not thinking, and that changes everything.
by Lisa Feldman Barrett 2020 192 pages
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🧠 Neuroscience Myths🧬 Brain Evolution🔮 Predictive Processing
The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition
by Daniel L. Schacter • 2001
Memory's worst habits are not bugs but features, and the seven failures that prove it.
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🧠 Cognitive Psychology🔬 Memory Science📉 Forgetting
The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition Summary
The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition
Memory's worst habits are not bugs but features, and the seven failures that prove it.
by Daniel L. Schacter 2001 416 pages
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🧠 Cognitive Psychology🔬 Memory Science📉 Forgetting
Deep Nutrition
by Catherine Shanahan • 2008
Your genes evolved expecting bone broth and organ meats. They're getting vegetable oil instead.
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🦴 Ancestral Eating🧬 Epigenetics🍲 Traditional Diets
Deep Nutrition Summary
Deep Nutrition
Your genes evolved expecting bone broth and organ meats. They're getting vegetable oil instead.
by Catherine Shanahan 2008 512 pages
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🦴 Ancestral Eating🧬 Epigenetics🍲 Traditional Diets
Burn
by Herman Pontzer • 2021
Your body has a fixed daily calorie cap. The weight loss answer is evolutionary, not dietary.
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🏥 Evolutionary Medicine⚡ Metabolic Adaptation🍽️ Dietary Anthropology
Burn Summary
Burn
Your body has a fixed daily calorie cap. The weight loss answer is evolutionary, not dietary.
by Herman Pontzer 2021 384 pages
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🏥 Evolutionary Medicine⚡ Metabolic Adaptation🍽️ Dietary Anthropology
The Expanding Circle
by Peter Singer • 1981
Morality started with vampire bats, not God. Reason is taking it further than evolution ever could.
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🧬 Evolutionary Ethics📈 Moral Progress⚖️ Utilitarianism
The Expanding Circle Summary
The Expanding Circle
Morality started with vampire bats, not God. Reason is taking it further than evolution ever could.
by Peter Singer 1981 232 pages
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🧬 Evolutionary Ethics📈 Moral Progress⚖️ Utilitarianism
Integral Psychology
by Ken Wilber • 1999
Consciousness is a tangle of levels, lines, and states. A four-cornered map finally integrates them.
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🧠 Transpersonal Psychology🔬 Consciousness Studies🌱 Developmental Models
Integral Psychology Summary
Integral Psychology
Consciousness is a tangle of levels, lines, and states. A four-cornered map finally integrates them.
by Ken Wilber 1999 303 pages
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🧠 Transpersonal Psychology🔬 Consciousness Studies🌱 Developmental Models
The Intelligence Paradox
by Satoshi Kanazawa • 2012
Intelligence evolved for novelty. So smart people lean liberal, atheist, nocturnal, and childless.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🔬 Intelligence Research🌍 Evolutionary Mismatch
The Intelligence Paradox Summary
The Intelligence Paradox
Intelligence evolved for novelty. So smart people lean liberal, atheist, nocturnal, and childless.
by Satoshi Kanazawa 2012 266 pages
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🔬 Intelligence Research🌍 Evolutionary Mismatch
Sapiens and Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari • 2017
We conquered the planet through shared fictions. The next upgrade may leave humanity behind.
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🏛️ Big History🔮 Future Of Humanity🧠 Free Will Debate
Sapiens and Homo Deus Summary
Sapiens and Homo Deus
We conquered the planet through shared fictions. The next upgrade may leave humanity behind.
by Yuval Noah Harari 2017 816 pages
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🏛️ Big History🔮 Future Of Humanity🧠 Free Will Debate
Cooked
by Michael Pollan • 2013
Cooking made us human, then we stopped. What starting over from scratch reveals.
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📜 Culinary History🔬 Food Science🫙 Fermentation
Cooked Summary
Cooked
Cooking made us human, then we stopped. What starting over from scratch reveals.
by Michael Pollan 2013 451 pages
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📜 Culinary History🔬 Food Science🫙 Fermentation
Big History
by David Christian • 2008
13.8 billion years: from pure energy to a planet shaping species. The thread is not chance.
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🪐 Cosmic Evolution📜 Universal History🧩 Complexity Science
Big History Summary
Big History
13.8 billion years: from pure energy to a planet shaping species. The thread is not chance.
by David Christian 2008
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🪐 Cosmic Evolution📜 Universal History🧩 Complexity Science
The Evolving Self
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi • 1993
Your genes program you, your culture scripts you. Conscious evolution teaches you to override both.
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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🧠 Consciousness Studies🌊 Flow State
The Evolving Self Summary
The Evolving Self
Your genes program you, your culture scripts you. Conscious evolution teaches you to override both.
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1993
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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🧠 Consciousness Studies🌊 Flow State
The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore • 1999
Our brains did not make culture. Culture, evolving like a virus, made our brains.
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🧬 Cultural Evolution🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🦠 Memetics
The Meme Machine Summary
The Meme Machine
Our brains did not make culture. Culture, evolving like a virus, made our brains.
by Susan Blackmore 1999 288 pages
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🧬 Cultural Evolution🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🦠 Memetics
Rationality
by Steven Pinker • 2021
How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.
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🧠 Cognitive Biases📊 Bayesian Reasoning🎯 Game Theory
Rationality Summary
Rationality
How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.
by Steven Pinker 2021 412 pages
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🧠 Cognitive Biases📊 Bayesian Reasoning🎯 Game Theory
Why Is Sex Fun?
by Jared Diamond • 1997
Why human mating is nature's oddest: hidden ovulation, menopause, and the real reason men hunt.
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🧬 Evolutionary Biology💞 Human Sexuality🦚 Sexual Selection
Why Is Sex Fun? Summary
Why Is Sex Fun?
Why human mating is nature's oddest: hidden ovulation, menopause, and the real reason men hunt.
by Jared Diamond 1997 176 pages
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🧬 Evolutionary Biology💞 Human Sexuality🦚 Sexual Selection
Mind & Cosmos
by Thomas Nagel • 2012
If the mind is just matter, reason collapses. The cosmos must be different.
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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind💡 Consciousness🧱 Limits Of Physicalism
Mind & Cosmos Summary
Mind & Cosmos
If the mind is just matter, reason collapses. The cosmos must be different.
by Thomas Nagel 2012 144 pages
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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind💡 Consciousness🧱 Limits Of Physicalism
The Worm at the Core
by Sheldon Solomon • 2015
Your culture, your self-esteem, your gods: all of it is armor against the fear of death.
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🧠 Existential Psychology💀 Fear Of Death🪦 Death Denial
The Worm at the Core Summary
The Worm at the Core
Your culture, your self-esteem, your gods: all of it is armor against the fear of death.
by Sheldon Solomon 2015 274 pages
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🧠 Existential Psychology💀 Fear Of Death🪦 Death Denial
Power, Sex, Suicide
by Nick Lane • 2005
Complex life required an improbable merger two billion years ago. Everything since follows.
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🧬 Cell Biology🦎 Evolutionary Biology⚛️ Biochemistry
Power, Sex, Suicide Summary
Power, Sex, Suicide
Complex life required an improbable merger two billion years ago. Everything since follows.
by Nick Lane 2005 354 pages
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🧬 Cell Biology🦎 Evolutionary Biology⚛️ Biochemistry
Consilience
by Edward O. Wilson • 1998
The biologist who thinks evolution can reunite sciences with the humanities, from neurons to art.
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🧬 Evolutionary Biology🔬 Philosophy Of Science🌍 Cultural Evolution
Consilience Summary
Consilience
The biologist who thinks evolution can reunite sciences with the humanities, from neurons to art.
by Edward O. Wilson 1998 368 pages
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🧬 Evolutionary Biology🔬 Philosophy Of Science🌍 Cultural Evolution
The Age of Spiritual Machines
by Ray Kurzweil • 1998
Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.
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🤖 Technological Singularity📈 Exponential Growth🧬 Transhumanism
The Age of Spiritual Machines Summary
The Age of Spiritual Machines
Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.
by Ray Kurzweil 1998 681 pages
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🤖 Technological Singularity📈 Exponential Growth🧬 Transhumanism
The Gene
by Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2016
From Mendel's peas to CRISPR babies: how the gene became biology's most powerful and dangerous idea.
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🧬 History Of Genetics⚠️ Eugenics History🗺️ Human Genome Project
The Gene Summary
The Gene
From Mendel's peas to CRISPR babies: how the gene became biology's most powerful and dangerous idea.
by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2016 592 pages
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🧬 History Of Genetics⚠️ Eugenics History🗺️ Human Genome Project
Attachment
by John Bowlby • 1969
Crying for mother is not a learned habit but a primal survival system, now proven beyond doubt.
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🧷 Attachment Theory🧠 Developmental Psychology🐒 Evolutionary Psychology
Attachment Summary
Attachment
Crying for mother is not a learned habit but a primal survival system, now proven beyond doubt.
by John Bowlby 1969 448 pages
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🧷 Attachment Theory🧠 Developmental Psychology🐒 Evolutionary Psychology
Breath
by James Nestor • 2020
You breathe wrong, and it's wrecking your health. The fix is older than medicine.
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🫁 Breathing Techniques👃 Nasal Breathing🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch
Breath Summary
Breath
You breathe wrong, and it's wrecking your health. The fix is older than medicine.
by James Nestor 2020
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🫁 Breathing Techniques👃 Nasal Breathing🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch
An Immense World
by Ed Yong • 2022
Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.
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🐾 Animal Senses🔬 Sensory Biology👁️ Animal Perception
An Immense World Summary
An Immense World
Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.
by Ed Yong 2022 464 pages
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36k+ ratings
🐾 Animal Senses🔬 Sensory Biology👁️ Animal Perception
The Polyvagal Theory
by Stephen W. Porges • 2011
Three brains in one nervous system: the oldest immobilizes you, the newest lets you love.
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🧠 Autonomic Nervous System🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience🔗 Attachment Theory
The Polyvagal Theory Summary
The Polyvagal Theory
Three brains in one nervous system: the oldest immobilizes you, the newest lets you love.
by Stephen W. Porges 2011 347 pages
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🧠 Autonomic Nervous System🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience🔗 Attachment Theory
The Sports Gene
by David Epstein • 2013
Why Kenyans dominate marathons and Jamaicans sprints: the genes and culture that build champions.
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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🏃 Sports Science💪 Exercise Physiology
The Sports Gene Summary
The Sports Gene
Why Kenyans dominate marathons and Jamaicans sprints: the genes and culture that build champions.
by David Epstein 2013 338 pages
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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture🏃 Sports Science💪 Exercise Physiology
The Tell-Tale Brain
by V.S. Ramachandran • 2010
Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.
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🧠 Neuroplasticity🪞 Mirror Neurons🎨 Neuroaesthetics
The Tell-Tale Brain Summary
The Tell-Tale Brain
Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.
by V.S. Ramachandran 2010 384 pages
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🧠 Neuroplasticity🪞 Mirror Neurons🎨 Neuroaesthetics
The Nurture Assumption
by Judith Rich Harris • 1998
Parents shape children far less than we believe. Peers, not parents, build adult personality.
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👥 Peer Influence🧬 Behavioral Genetics🏠 Parental Influence Debate
The Nurture Assumption Summary
The Nurture Assumption
Parents shape children far less than we believe. Peers, not parents, build adult personality.
by Judith Rich Harris 1998 480 pages
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👥 Peer Influence🧬 Behavioral Genetics🏠 Parental Influence Debate
The Phenomenon of Man
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • 1955
A single force drives the universe, from atoms to love, and it is not entropy.
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🧬 Evolutionary Theology🧠 Emergent Consciousness✨ Panpsychism
The Phenomenon of Man Summary
The Phenomenon of Man
A single force drives the universe, from atoms to love, and it is not entropy.
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1955 320 pages
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🧬 Evolutionary Theology🧠 Emergent Consciousness✨ Panpsychism
Until the End of Time
by Brian Greene • 2020
The universe is winding down, yet it made you. Why, from quarks to consciousness.
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🌌 Big History🌡️ Thermodynamics🧬 Origins Of Life
Until the End of Time Summary
Until the End of Time
The universe is winding down, yet it made you. Why, from quarks to consciousness.
by Brian Greene 2020 428 pages
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🌌 Big History🌡️ Thermodynamics🧬 Origins Of Life
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
by Daniel C. Dennett • 1995
Design doesn't need a designer: a blind, algorithmic process built life, mind, and morality.
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🔬 Philosophy Of Science🧬 Evolutionary Biology⚙️ Algorithmic Explanation
Darwin's Dangerous Idea Summary
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Design doesn't need a designer: a blind, algorithmic process built life, mind, and morality.
by Daniel C. Dennett 1995 588 pages
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🔬 Philosophy Of Science🧬 Evolutionary Biology⚙️ Algorithmic Explanation
The Great Mental Models Volume 2
by Shane Parrish • 2019
The best mental tools come from physics, chemistry, and biology, not business books.
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🧠 Mental Models🔗 Systems Thinking🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Great Mental Models Volume 2 Summary
The Great Mental Models Volume 2
The best mental tools come from physics, chemistry, and biology, not business books.
by Shane Parrish 2019 397 pages
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🧠 Mental Models🔗 Systems Thinking🧬 Evolutionary Psychology
The Chemistry Between Us
by Larry Young • 2012
Love isn't a mystery; it's a chemical addiction your brain evolved to keep you breeding.
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🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience🧬 Evolutionary Psychology💞 Pair Bonding
The Chemistry Between Us Summary
The Chemistry Between Us
Love isn't a mystery; it's a chemical addiction your brain evolved to keep you breeding.
by Larry Young 2012 320 pages
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🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience🧬 Evolutionary Psychology💞 Pair Bonding
The Ape that Understood the Universe
by Steve Stewart-Williams • 2018
You don't own your desires. They belong to your genes and the ideas colonizing your mind.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology📜 Cultural Evolution💘 Mating Strategies
The Ape that Understood the Universe Summary
The Ape that Understood the Universe
You don't own your desires. They belong to your genes and the ideas colonizing your mind.
by Steve Stewart-Williams 2018 378 pages
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology📜 Cultural Evolution💘 Mating Strategies
Consuming Instinct
by Gad Saad • 2011
Your cravings for burgers, Ferraris, and porn all trace back to the same evolutionary wiring.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🛒 Consumer Psychology📊 Behavioral Economics
Consuming Instinct Summary
Consuming Instinct
Your cravings for burgers, Ferraris, and porn all trace back to the same evolutionary wiring.
by Gad Saad 2011 392 pages
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🛒 Consumer Psychology📊 Behavioral Economics
The Big Picture
by Sean Carroll • 2016
How a purposeless cosmos produces life, mind, and the meaning we build for ourselves.
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🔭 Cosmology🧬 Origin Of Life🧠 Consciousness Studies
The Big Picture Summary
The Big Picture
How a purposeless cosmos produces life, mind, and the meaning we build for ourselves.
by Sean Carroll 2016 475 pages
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🔭 Cosmology🧬 Origin Of Life🧠 Consciousness Studies
Supernormal Stimuli
by Deirdre Barrett • 2010
Giant fake eggs fool geese. Junk food, screens, and porn pull the same trick on you.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch🎣 Instinct Hijacking
Supernormal Stimuli Summary
Supernormal Stimuli
Giant fake eggs fool geese. Junk food, screens, and porn pull the same trick on you.
by Deirdre Barrett 2010 226 pages
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch🎣 Instinct Hijacking
Why We Die
by Venki Ramakrishnan • 2024
100,000 DNA hits daily: why youth survives, but age still wins.
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🧬 Aging Biology🧫 Cellular Senescence⚡ Mitochondria
Why We Die Summary
Why We Die
100,000 DNA hits daily: why youth survives, but age still wins.
by Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 318 pages
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🧬 Aging Biology🧫 Cellular Senescence⚡ Mitochondria
The Epigenetics Revolution
by Nessa Carey • 2011
A second code sits above your genes, translating hunger, stress, and touch into biology.
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🧬 Epigenetics🔬 Molecular Biology🧫 Cellular Reprogramming
The Epigenetics Revolution Summary
The Epigenetics Revolution
A second code sits above your genes, translating hunger, stress, and touch into biology.
by Nessa Carey 2011 320 pages
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🧬 Epigenetics🔬 Molecular Biology🧫 Cellular Reprogramming
The Compassionate Mind
by Paul A. Gilbert • 2009
Your brain's three emotional systems are out of balance. A specific mental training can restore it.
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🧘 Buddhist Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology💗 Self-Compassion
The Compassionate Mind Summary
The Compassionate Mind
Your brain's three emotional systems are out of balance. A specific mental training can restore it.
by Paul A. Gilbert 2009 513 pages
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🧘 Buddhist Psychology🧬 Evolutionary Psychology💗 Self-Compassion
FREEDOM
by Jeremy Griffith • 2016
Moral instinct and conscious mind are at war. Understanding why ends the war.
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🦴 Human Origins⚔️ Instinct Versus Reason
FREEDOM Summary
FREEDOM
Moral instinct and conscious mind are at war. Understanding why ends the war.
by Jeremy Griffith 2016 798 pages
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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🦴 Human Origins⚔️ Instinct Versus Reason
Food of the Gods
by Terence McKenna • 1992
A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.
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🧬 Human Evolution🌿 Ethnobotany🌀 Altered States
Food of the Gods Summary
Food of the Gods
A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.
by Terence McKenna 1992 311 pages
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🧬 Human Evolution🌿 Ethnobotany🌀 Altered States
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson • 2004
How the universe built itself from nothing, and the eccentric scientists who figured it out.
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🔬 Popular Science📜 Science History🌿 Natural History
A Short History of Nearly Everything Summary
A Short History of Nearly Everything
How the universe built itself from nothing, and the eccentric scientists who figured it out.
by Bill Bryson 2004 544 pages
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🔬 Popular Science📜 Science History🌿 Natural History
The Origins of Virtue
by Matt Ridley • 1997
Society did not tame our selfish instincts. Selfish genes built our capacity for cooperation.
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🧬 Evolutionary Biology🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🤝 Human Cooperation
The Origins of Virtue Summary
The Origins of Virtue
Society did not tame our selfish instincts. Selfish genes built our capacity for cooperation.
by Matt Ridley 1997 265 pages
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🧬 Evolutionary Biology🧠 Evolutionary Psychology🤝 Human Cooperation
The Science of Attraction
by Patrick King • 2017
Flirting follows a script, attraction runs on biology. The rules for making both work in your favor.
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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🤐 Nonverbal Communication💋 Flirting Techniques
The Science of Attraction Summary
The Science of Attraction
Flirting follows a script, attraction runs on biology. The rules for making both work in your favor.
by Patrick King 2017 135 pages
3.52
218 ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🤐 Nonverbal Communication💋 Flirting Techniques
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