Bästa Evolution-böckerna | Sammanfattningar & ljud

Evolution Boksammanfattningar

Ett oskrivet blad

av 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 👶 Innate Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Ett oskrivet blad

Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.

av Steven Pinker 2002 560 sidor

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧪 Behavioral Genetics 👶 Innate Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Kundalini

av Gopi Krishna • 1967

A single meditation erased his love for his family. Then the real physical crisis began.

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🐍 Kundalini Awakening 🚨 Spiritual Emergency 🔮 Esoteric Anatomy 🧠 Mind-Body Connection ⚡ Spontaneous Awakening

Kundalini

A single meditation erased his love for his family. Then the real physical crisis began.

av Gopi Krishna 1967 256 sidor

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🐍 Kundalini Awakening 🚨 Spiritual Emergency 🔮 Esoteric Anatomy 🧠 Mind-Body Connection ⚡ Spontaneous Awakening

Moral Tribes

av 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 🏴 Tribalism 🤝 Cooperation

Moral Tribes

Your moral brain has a tribal mode and a modern mode. The tribal one keeps winning.

av Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 sidor

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🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🏴 Tribalism 🤝 Cooperation

Tidens barn

av 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 🚀 Generation Ship ⏳ Deep Time

Tidens barn

Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.

av Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 600 sidor

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🧬 Accelerated Evolution 🖖 First Contact 🕷️ Uplifted Species 🚀 Generation Ship ⏳ Deep Time

The Blind Watchmaker

av 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 ⚔️ Evolutionary Arms Races 🦚 Sexual Selection

The Blind Watchmaker

A blind, unthinking algorithm built every wing, eye, and brain on Earth; no designer required.

av Richard Dawkins 1986 466 sidor

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🧬 Natural Selection ⌚ Design Argument 🧩 Gene-Centric Evolution ⚔️ Evolutionary Arms Races 🦚 Sexual Selection

Why We Love

av 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 🧬 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Social Bonding

Why We Love

Love is a survival system, not a feeling. Romantic love is its rarest and strangest form.

av Anna Machin 2022 315 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔗 Attachment Theory 💑 Relationship Science 🧬 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Social Bonding

Sju och en halv lektion om hjärnan

av 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 🏛️ Social Reality 🔗 Interconnected Minds

Sju och en halv lektion om hjärnan

Your brain's real job is body regulation, not thinking, and that changes everything.

av Lisa Feldman Barrett 2020 192 sidor

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🧠 Neuroscience Myths 🧬 Brain Evolution 🔮 Predictive Processing 🏛️ Social Reality 🔗 Interconnected Minds

Deep Nutrition

av 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 🦎 Evolutionary Biology 🔥 Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Deep Nutrition

Your genes evolved expecting bone broth and organ meats. They're getting vegetable oil instead.

av Catherine Shanahan 2008 512 sidor

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🦴 Ancestral Eating 🧬 Epigenetics 🍲 Traditional Diets 🦎 Evolutionary Biology 🔥 Anti-Inflammatory Diet

Burn

av 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 ⚖️ Weight Loss Myths 🏃 Exercise Science

Burn

Your body has a fixed daily calorie cap. The weight loss answer is evolutionary, not dietary.

av Herman Pontzer 2021 384 sidor

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🏥 Evolutionary Medicine ⚡ Metabolic Adaptation 🍽️ Dietary Anthropology ⚖️ Weight Loss Myths 🏃 Exercise Science

The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition

av 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 ❓ Memory Biases 💭 False Memories

The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition

Memory's worst habits are not bugs but features, and the seven failures that prove it.

av Daniel L. Schacter 2001 416 sidor

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology 🔬 Memory Science 📉 Forgetting ❓ Memory Biases 💭 False Memories

The Expanding Circle

av 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 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Altruism

The Expanding Circle

Morality started with vampire bats, not God. Reason is taking it further than evolution ever could.

av Peter Singer 1981 232 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 📈 Moral Progress ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Altruism

Integral Psychology

av 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 🧩 Multiple Intelligences ⚕️ Mind-Body Integration

Integral Psychology

Consciousness is a tangle of levels, lines, and states. A four-cornered map finally integrates them.

av Ken Wilber 1999 303 sidor

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🧠 Transpersonal Psychology 🔬 Consciousness Studies 🌱 Developmental Models 🧩 Multiple Intelligences ⚕️ Mind-Body Integration

Sapiens and Homo Deus

av 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 🤖 Technological Futurism ⛪ Religion And Science

Sapiens and Homo Deus

We conquered the planet through shared fictions. The next upgrade may leave humanity behind.

av Yuval Noah Harari 2017 816 sidor

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🏛️ Big History 🔮 Future Of Humanity 🧠 Free Will Debate 🤖 Technological Futurism ⛪ Religion And Science

Cooked

av 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 🦠 Microbiome 🐌 Slow Food Movement

Cooked

Cooking made us human, then we stopped. What starting over from scratch reveals.

av Michael Pollan 2013 451 sidor

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📜 Culinary History 🔬 Food Science 🫙 Fermentation 🦠 Microbiome 🐌 Slow Food Movement

The Intelligence Paradox

av 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 ⚡ Iq Controversy 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture

The Intelligence Paradox

Intelligence evolved for novelty. So smart people lean liberal, atheist, nocturnal, and childless.

av Satoshi Kanazawa 2012 266 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Intelligence Research 🌍 Evolutionary Mismatch ⚡ Iq Controversy 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture

Big History

av 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 ⚡ Energy History 🦴 Human Origins

Big History

13.8 billion years: from pure energy to a planet shaping species. The thread is not chance.

av David Christian 2008

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🪐 Cosmic Evolution 📜 Universal History 🧩 Complexity Science ⚡ Energy History 🦴 Human Origins

The Evolving Self

av 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 🎭 Cultural Conditioning 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation

The Evolving Self

Your genes program you, your culture scripts you. Conscious evolution teaches you to override both.

av Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1993

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌊 Flow State 🎭 Cultural Conditioning 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation

The Meme Machine

av 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 🔄 Universal Darwinism 🤝 Altruism Evolution

The Meme Machine

Our brains did not make culture. Culture, evolving like a virus, made our brains.

av Susan Blackmore 1999 288 sidor

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🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦠 Memetics 🔄 Universal Darwinism 🤝 Altruism Evolution

Rationality

av 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 📈 Statistical Thinking 🛡️ Motivated Reasoning

Rationality

How a single mental toolkit built science, law, and democracy, and why it keeps short-circuiting.

av Steven Pinker 2021 412 sidor

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 📊 Bayesian Reasoning 🎯 Game Theory 📈 Statistical Thinking 🛡️ Motivated Reasoning

Why Is Sex Fun?

av 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 🔄 Reproductive Strategies 💘 Mate Selection

Why Is Sex Fun?

Why human mating is nature's oddest: hidden ovulation, menopause, and the real reason men hunt.

av Jared Diamond 1997 176 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 💞 Human Sexuality 🦚 Sexual Selection 🔄 Reproductive Strategies 💘 Mate Selection

Mind & Cosmos

av 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 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 🌱 Natural Teleology

Mind & Cosmos

If the mind is just matter, reason collapses. The cosmos must be different.

av Thomas Nagel 2012 144 sidor

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Consciousness 🧱 Limits Of Physicalism 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics 🌱 Natural Teleology

The Worm at the Core

av 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 🏛️ Symbolic Immortality 🌍 Cultural Worldviews

The Worm at the Core

Your culture, your self-esteem, your gods: all of it is armor against the fear of death.

av Sheldon Solomon 2015 274 sidor

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🧠 Existential Psychology 💀 Fear Of Death 🪦 Death Denial 🏛️ Symbolic Immortality 🌍 Cultural Worldviews

Power, Sex, Suicide

av 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 🌋 Origin Of Life 🔗 Endosymbiotic Theory

Power, Sex, Suicide

Complex life required an improbable merger two billion years ago. Everything since follows.

av Nick Lane 2005 354 sidor

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🧬 Cell Biology 🦎 Evolutionary Biology ⚛️ Biochemistry 🌋 Origin Of Life 🔗 Endosymbiotic Theory

The Age of Spiritual Machines

av 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 ⚖️ Ai Ethics 🧠 Evolution Of Intelligence

The Age of Spiritual Machines

Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.

av Ray Kurzweil 1998 681 sidor

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🤖 Technological Singularity 📈 Exponential Growth 🧬 Transhumanism ⚖️ Ai Ethics 🧠 Evolution Of Intelligence

The Gene

av 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 ✂️ Gene Editing Ethics 🧠 Nature Vs Nurture

The Gene

From Mendel's peas to CRISPR babies: how the gene became biology's most powerful and dangerous idea.

av Siddhartha Mukherjee 2016 592 sidor

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🧬 History Of Genetics ⚠️ Eugenics History 🗺️ Human Genome Project ✂️ Gene Editing Ethics 🧠 Nature Vs Nurture

Consilience

av 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 🐝 Sociobiology ⚛️ Reductionism

Consilience

The biologist who thinks evolution can reunite sciences with the humanities, from neurons to art.

av Edward O. Wilson 1998 368 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🐝 Sociobiology ⚛️ Reductionism

An Immense World

av 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 🧪 Popular Science 🦊 Animal Behavior

An Immense World

Your world is one sliver of reality. A tour through the sensory universes other animals inhabit.

av Ed Yong 2022 464 sidor

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🐾 Animal Senses 🔬 Sensory Biology 👁️ Animal Perception 🧪 Popular Science 🦊 Animal Behavior

Attachment

av 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 👶 Infant Development 🛋️ Psychoanalysis

Attachment

Crying for mother is not a learned habit but a primal survival system, now proven beyond doubt.

av John Bowlby 1969 448 sidor

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🧷 Attachment Theory 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 👶 Infant Development 🛋️ Psychoanalysis

Breath

av 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 ⚖️ Autonomic Balance 💨 CO2 Tolerance

Breath

You breathe wrong, and it's wrecking your health. The fix is older than medicine.

av James Nestor 2020

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🫁 Breathing Techniques 👃 Nasal Breathing 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch ⚖️ Autonomic Balance 💨 CO2 Tolerance

The Sports Gene

av 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 🌱 Talent Development 🏆 Elite Performance

The Sports Gene

Why Kenyans dominate marathons and Jamaicans sprints: the genes and culture that build champions.

av David Epstein 2013 338 sidor

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🏃 Sports Science 💪 Exercise Physiology 🌱 Talent Development 🏆 Elite Performance

Den polyvagala teorin

av 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 ❤️ Affective Neuroscience ⚡ Stress Response

Den polyvagala teorin

Three brains in one nervous system: the oldest immobilizes you, the newest lets you love.

av Stephen W. Porges 2011 347 sidor

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🧠 Autonomic Nervous System 🧬 Evolutionary Neuroscience 🔗 Attachment Theory ❤️ Affective Neuroscience ⚡ Stress Response

The Tell-Tale Brain

av 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 🧍 Embodied Cognition 🌈 Synesthesia

The Tell-Tale Brain

Mirror neurons, cells that fire whether you act or watch someone else, are what made us human.

av V.S. Ramachandran 2010 384 sidor

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🧠 Neuroplasticity 🪞 Mirror Neurons 🎨 Neuroaesthetics 🧍 Embodied Cognition 🌈 Synesthesia

Until the End of Time

av 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 🧠 Consciousness 🔗 Free Will

Until the End of Time

The universe is winding down, yet it made you. Why, from quarks to consciousness.

av Brian Greene 2020 428 sidor

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🌌 Big History 🌡️ Thermodynamics 🧬 Origins Of Life 🧠 Consciousness 🔗 Free Will

The Nurture Assumption

av 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 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 🔗 Group Dynamics

The Nurture Assumption

Parents shape children far less than we believe. Peers, not parents, build adult personality.

av Judith Rich Harris 1998 480 sidor

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👥 Peer Influence 🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🏠 Parental Influence Debate 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology 🔗 Group Dynamics

The Phenomenon of Man

av 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 🌍 Planetary Consciousness 🕯️ Christian Mysticism

The Phenomenon of Man

A single force drives the universe, from atoms to love, and it is not entropy.

av Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1955 320 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Theology 🧠 Emergent Consciousness ✨ Panpsychism 🌍 Planetary Consciousness 🕯️ Christian Mysticism

The Great Mental Models Volume 2

av 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 💸 Behavioral Economics 📈 Business Strategy

The Great Mental Models Volume 2

The best mental tools come from physics, chemistry, and biology, not business books.

av Shane Parrish 2019 397 sidor

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🧠 Mental Models 🔗 Systems Thinking 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💸 Behavioral Economics 📈 Business Strategy

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

av 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 🗣️ Cultural Evolution 🧠 Memetics

Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Design doesn't need a designer: a blind, algorithmic process built life, mind, and morality.

av Daniel C. Dennett 1995 588 sidor

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧬 Evolutionary Biology ⚙️ Algorithmic Explanation 🗣️ Cultural Evolution 🧠 Memetics

The Chemistry Between Us

av 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 🧪 Brain Reward Pathways 🦋 Biology Of Desire

The Chemistry Between Us

Love isn't a mystery; it's a chemical addiction your brain evolved to keep you breeding.

av Larry Young 2012 320 sidor

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🧠 Behavioral Neuroscience 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💞 Pair Bonding 🧪 Brain Reward Pathways 🦋 Biology Of Desire

Consuming Instinct

av 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 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 💋 Sexual Selection

Consuming Instinct

Your cravings for burgers, Ferraris, and porn all trace back to the same evolutionary wiring.

av Gad Saad 2011 392 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🛒 Consumer Psychology 📊 Behavioral Economics 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 💋 Sexual Selection

The Ape that Understood the Universe

av 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 👶 Parental Investment 🤝 Altruism

The Ape that Understood the Universe

You don't own your desires. They belong to your genes and the ideas colonizing your mind.

av Steve Stewart-Williams 2018 378 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 📜 Cultural Evolution 💘 Mating Strategies 👶 Parental Investment 🤝 Altruism

The Big Picture

av 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 💭 Meaning And Purpose 📊 Bayesian Reasoning

The Big Picture

How a purposeless cosmos produces life, mind, and the meaning we build for ourselves.

av Sean Carroll 2016 475 sidor

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🔭 Cosmology 🧬 Origin Of Life 🧠 Consciousness Studies 💭 Meaning And Purpose 📊 Bayesian Reasoning

Supernormal Stimuli

av 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 🍔 Consumption And Craving 📺 Media Effects

Supernormal Stimuli

Giant fake eggs fool geese. Junk food, screens, and porn pull the same trick on you.

av Deirdre Barrett 2010 226 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⏳ Evolutionary Mismatch 🎣 Instinct Hijacking 🍔 Consumption And Craving 📺 Media Effects

Food of the Gods

av 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 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

Food of the Gods

A single psychoactive mushroom may have sparked language, religion, and human consciousness itself.

av Terence McKenna 1992 311 sidor

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🧬 Human Evolution 🌿 Ethnobotany 🌀 Altered States 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

The Epigenetics Revolution

av 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 🌿 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Epigenetic Inheritance

The Epigenetics Revolution

A second code sits above your genes, translating hunger, stress, and touch into biology.

av Nessa Carey 2011 320 sidor

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🧬 Epigenetics 🔬 Molecular Biology 🧫 Cellular Reprogramming 🌿 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Epigenetic Inheritance

Why We Die

av Venki Ramakrishnan • 2024

100,000 DNA hits daily: why youth survives, but age still wins.

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🧬 Aging Biology 🧫 Cellular Senescence ⚡ Mitochondria 🥗 Caloric Restriction 🔄 Epigenetics

Why We Die

100,000 DNA hits daily: why youth survives, but age still wins.

av Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 318 sidor

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🧬 Aging Biology 🧫 Cellular Senescence ⚡ Mitochondria 🥗 Caloric Restriction 🔄 Epigenetics

FREEDOM

av 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 🤝 Altruism Evolution 💭 Consciousness Studies

FREEDOM

Moral instinct and conscious mind are at war. Understanding why ends the war.

av Jeremy Griffith 2016 798 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦴 Human Origins ⚔️ Instinct Versus Reason 🤝 Altruism Evolution 💭 Consciousness Studies

A Short History of Nearly Everything

av Bill Bryson • 2004

How the universe built itself from nothing, and the eccentric scientists who figured it out.

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

How the universe built itself from nothing, and the eccentric scientists who figured it out.

av Bill Bryson 2004 544 sidor

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The Origins of Virtue

av 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 🎲 Game Theory 📖 Sociobiology

The Origins of Virtue

Society did not tame our selfish instincts. Selfish genes built our capacity for cooperation.

av Matt Ridley 1997 265 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Human Cooperation 🎲 Game Theory 📖 Sociobiology

The Compassionate Mind

av 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 🧠 Emotion Regulation 🗣️ Inner Critic

The Compassionate Mind

Your brain's three emotional systems are out of balance. A specific mental training can restore it.

av Paul A. Gilbert 2009 513 sidor

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🧘 Buddhist Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💗 Self-Compassion 🧠 Emotion Regulation 🗣️ Inner Critic

Trying Not to Try

av Edward Slingerland • 2014

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

3.74

1 000+

🏮 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 sidor

3.74

1 000+ betyg

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

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