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Trying Not to Try

av 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.

av Edward Slingerland 2014 304 sider

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

Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

av 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.

av Alan S. Miller 2006 252 sider

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

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

av 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.

av Michael Tomasello 1999 256 sider

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

Richard Dawkins

av 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.

av Mark Ridley 2006 304 sider

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

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

av 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.

av Frans de Waal 2016 340 sider

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

She Has Her Mother's Laugh

av 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.

av Carl Zimmer 2018 657 sider

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

Subliminal

av 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.

av Leonard Mlodinow 2012 260 sider

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

Separation

av 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.

av John Bowlby 1972 444 sider

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

Peoplewatching

av 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.

av Desmond Morris 2002 544 sider

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

Climbing Mount Improbable

av 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.

av Richard Dawkins 1996 308 sider

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

Virus of the Mind

av 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.

av Richard Brodie 1995 256 sider

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

Who We Are and How We Got Here

av 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.

av David Reich 2018 335 sider

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

Looking for Spinoza

av 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

Looking for Spinoza

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

av António Damásio 2001 355 sider

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

Black and White Thinking

av 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.

av Kevin Dutton 2021

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

The Emotional Brain

av 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

The Emotional Brain

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

av Joseph E. LeDoux 1996 384 sider

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

Nonzero

av 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.

av Robert Wright 450 sider

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

What Doesn't Kill Us

av 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.

av Scott Carney 2017 272 sider

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

The Mathematics of Life

av 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.

av Ian Stewart 2011 371 sider

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

The Sweet Spot

av 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.

av Paul Bloom 2021 304 sider

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

Origins of Human Communication

av 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.

av Michael Tomasello 1999 393 sider

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

Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set

av 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 Collection 3 Books Set

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

av Yuval Noah Harari 2019

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

Age of Empathy

av 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.

av Frans de Waal 2009 304 sider

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

The Origin of Species

av 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

The Origin of Species

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

av Charles Darwin 1859 703 sider

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

The Essential Difference

av 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.

av Simon Baron-Cohen 2003 288 sider

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

God's Undertaker

av 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.

av John C. Lennox 2002 224 sider

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

Plagues and Peoples

av 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.

av William H. McNeill 1976 368 sider

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

Mind Wide Open

av 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

Mind Wide Open

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

av Steven Johnson 1999 274 sider

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

Unconscious Branding

av 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

Unconscious Branding

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

av Douglas Van Praet 2012 288 sider

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

Your Brain Is a Time Machine

av 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.

av Dean Buonomano 2017 304 sider

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

The Vital Question

av 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.

av Nick Lane 2016 368 sider

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

The Consciousness Instinct

av 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.

av Michael S. Gazzaniga 2018 288 sider

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

The Magic of Reality

av 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.

av Richard Dawkins 2011 272 sider

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When Science Meets Religion

av 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.

av Ian G. Barbour 2000 205 sider

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

The Philosophical Baby

av 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.

av Alison Gopnik 2003 304 sider

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

Human Instinct

av 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.

av Robert Winston 2002 352 sider

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

At Home in the Universe

av 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.

av Stuart A. Kauffman 1995 336 sider

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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

av 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.

av Robert M. Sapolsky 1997 288 sider

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

The Cancer Code

av 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.

av Jason Fung 2020 288 sider

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

The Archaeology of Mind

av 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.

av Jaak Panksepp 2012 592 sider

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

The Bonobo and the Atheist

av 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.

av Frans de Waal 2013 289 sider

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

Hidden Games

av 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.

av Erez Yoeli 2022 368 sider

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

Monkeyluv

av 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.

av Robert M. Sapolsky 2005 209 sider

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

The Lives of a Cell

av 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.

av Lewis Thomas 1974 160 sider

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

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living

av 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

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living

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

av Jeff S. Volek 2011 316 sider

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

Everyone Is African

av 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.

av Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 sider

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

When Men Behave Badly

av 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.

av David M. Buss 2021 336 sider

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

The Hidden Brain

av 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.

av Shankar Vedantam 2009 270 sider

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

The Pattern Seekers

av 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.

av Simon Baron-Cohen 2020 272 sider

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

Why We Lie

av 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

Why We Lie

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

av David Livingstone Smith 2004 256 sider

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260 vurderinger

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av Russell A. Barkley • 2012

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

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Executive Functions

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

av Russell A. Barkley 2012 244 sider

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126 vurderinger

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

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