Evolutionary Humanism Books | Summaries & Audio

The Ascent of Man

by Jacob Bronowski • 1973

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Ascent of Man 91%

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

by Jacob Bronowski 1973

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

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 🤝 Altruism Evolution 💭 Consciousness Studies

FREEDOM 91%

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

by Jeremy Griffith 2016

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

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 🔄 Universal Darwinism 🤝 Altruism Evolution

The Meme Machine 91%

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

by Susan Blackmore 1999

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

Richard Dawkins

by 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 91%

Evolution from the gene up: two dozen intellectuals on the revolution Dawkins began.

by Mark Ridley 2006

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485 ratings

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

On Human Nature

by Edward O. Wilson • 1978

Evolution is our best mythology. The argument for anchoring ethics, art, and religion in biology.

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🌿 Evolutionary Biology 🐝 Sociobiology 🧬 Human Nature ⚔️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

On Human Nature 91%

Evolution is our best mythology. The argument for anchoring ethics, art, and religion in biology.

by Edward O. Wilson 1978

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🌿 Evolutionary Biology 🐝 Sociobiology 🧬 Human Nature ⚔️ Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

The Evolution of Everything

by Matt Ridley • 2015

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

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

The Evolution of Everything 91%

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

by Matt Ridley 2015

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

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 🐝 Sociobiology ⚛️ Reductionism

Consilience 91%

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

by Edward O. Wilson 1998

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

Purpose

by Samuel T. Wilkinson • 2024

Evolution is not blind chance. Deeper laws shape it, and those laws reveal your purpose.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Science And Religion ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧠 Free Will 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Relationships

Purpose 91%

Evolution is not blind chance. Deeper laws shape it, and those laws reveal your purpose.

by Samuel T. Wilkinson 2024

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔬 Science And Religion ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧠 Free Will 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Relationships

Nonzero

by 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 91%

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

by Robert Wright

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

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 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Altruism

The Expanding Circle 91%

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

by Peter Singer 1981

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

Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set

by 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 Summary

Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set 91%

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

by Yuval Noah Harari 2019

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

Outgrowing God

by Richard Dawkins • 2019

Humans have invented thousands of gods. A scientist's case for why yours is one of them.

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🧠 New Atheism ⛪ Religious Critique 🌍 Secular Humanism 🌐 Comparative Religion 📖 Biblical Criticism

Outgrowing God 91%

Humans have invented thousands of gods. A scientist's case for why yours is one of them.

by Richard Dawkins 2019

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🧠 New Atheism ⛪ Religious Critique 🌍 Secular Humanism 🌐 Comparative Religion 📖 Biblical Criticism

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 🤖 Technological Futurism ⛪ Religion And Science

Sapiens and Homo Deus 91%

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

by Yuval Noah Harari 2017

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

Our Kind

by Marvin Harris • 1989

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Our Kind 90%

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

by Marvin Harris 1989

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

The Meaning of Human Existence

by Edward O. Wilson • 2014

Evolution built us for tribal survival, not civilization. That mismatch is our deepest problem.

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🦴 Human Origins 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 👥 Group Selection ⛪ Religion And Science 🔬 Scientific Naturalism

The Meaning of Human Existence 90%

Evolution built us for tribal survival, not civilization. That mismatch is our deepest problem.

by Edward O. Wilson 2014

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🦴 Human Origins 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 👥 Group Selection ⛪ Religion And Science 🔬 Scientific Naturalism

Humanimal

by Adam Rutherford • 2016

We alone compose symphonies. Yet every supposedly unique human trait exists elsewhere in nature.

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🦴 Human Evolution 🔬 Comparative Biology 🧩 Animal Cognition 📚 Cultural Evolution 🤔 What Makes Us Human

Humanimal 90%

We alone compose symphonies. Yet every supposedly unique human trait exists elsewhere in nature.

by Adam Rutherford 2016

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🦴 Human Evolution 🔬 Comparative Biology 🧩 Animal Cognition 📚 Cultural Evolution 🤔 What Makes Us Human

A God That Could be Real

by Nancy Ellen Abrams • 2015

What if God isn't a creator but a creation, emerging from collective human consciousness right now?

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🧪 Science And Religion 🌊 Emergence Theory 🧠 Collective Consciousness 🌍 Planetary Ethics 🔭 Cosmic Perspective

A God That Could be Real 90%

What if God isn't a creator but a creation, emerging from collective human consciousness right now?

by Nancy Ellen Abrams 2015

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🧪 Science And Religion 🌊 Emergence Theory 🧠 Collective Consciousness 🌍 Planetary Ethics 🔭 Cosmic Perspective

This View of Life

by David Sloan Wilson • 2019

Social Darwinism got Darwin wrong. His real theory: cooperation, not competition, built humanity.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 👥 Group Selection ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Systems Thinking

This View of Life 90%

Social Darwinism got Darwin wrong. His real theory: cooperation, not competition, built humanity.

by David Sloan Wilson 2019

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 👥 Group Selection ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Systems Thinking

Hacking Darwin

by Jamie Metzl • 2019

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

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

Hacking Darwin 90%

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

by Jamie Metzl 2019

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

How the Mind Changed

by Joseph Jebelli • 2022

The human brain didn't just get bigger. It learned to cook, gossip, and hallucinate a self.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧩 Evolutionary Psychology 👥 Social Brain 🔮 Predictive Brain

How the Mind Changed 90%

The human brain didn't just get bigger. It learned to cook, gossip, and hallucinate a self.

by Joseph Jebelli 2022

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🧩 Evolutionary Psychology 👥 Social Brain 🔮 Predictive Brain

On Human Nature

by Roger Scruton • 2017

Genes and memes don't explain why you honor your dead, laugh, or hold someone accountable.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📖 Narrative Identity 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

On Human Nature 90%

Genes and memes don't explain why you honor your dead, laugh, or hold someone accountable.

by Roger Scruton 2017

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📖 Narrative Identity 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

From Darwin to Derrida

by David Haig • 2020

Meaning and purpose seem beyond physics. This biologist argues they are products of it.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤔 Philosophy Of Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 💡 Naturalized Meaning 🧩 Selfish Gene Theory

From Darwin to Derrida 90%

Meaning and purpose seem beyond physics. This biologist argues they are products of it.

by David Haig 2020

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80 ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤔 Philosophy Of Biology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 💡 Naturalized Meaning 🧩 Selfish Gene Theory

Life Driven Purpose

by Dan Barker • 2014

The cosmos owes you nothing. That's the starting point for building a meaning worth having.

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🏛️ Secular Humanism ⚖️ Harm Reduction Ethics 🎯 Meaning Making 🐒 Animal Nature 🧠 Modern Atheism

Life Driven Purpose 90%

The cosmos owes you nothing. That's the starting point for building a meaning worth having.

by Dan Barker 2014

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🏛️ Secular Humanism ⚖️ Harm Reduction Ethics 🎯 Meaning Making 🐒 Animal Nature 🧠 Modern Atheism

Genesis

by Edward O. Wilson • 2019

Why do creatures die for strangers? The real answer rewrites the origin of human society.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 📜 Deep History 🏘️ Group Selection 🤝 Evolution Of Altruism

Genesis 90%

Why do creatures die for strangers? The real answer rewrites the origin of human society.

by Edward O. Wilson 2019

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 📜 Deep History 🏘️ Group Selection 🤝 Evolution Of Altruism

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 👶 Parental Investment 🤝 Altruism

The Ape that Understood the Universe Summary

The Ape that Understood the Universe 90%

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

by Steve Stewart-Williams 2018

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

The Next Species

by Michael Tennesen • 2015

Five mass extinctions cleared the board. The sixth is us, and evolution is picking the survivors.

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🦴 Mass Extinctions 🌍 Anthropocene 🦜 Biodiversity Loss 🧬 Human Evolution 🔮 Future Evolution

The Next Species 90%

Five mass extinctions cleared the board. The sixth is us, and evolution is picking the survivors.

by Michael Tennesen 2015

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🦴 Mass Extinctions 🌍 Anthropocene 🦜 Biodiversity Loss 🧬 Human Evolution 🔮 Future Evolution

Life Ascending

by Nick Lane • 2009

Evolution's hardest problems, from life's origin to death itself, all have a chemical answer.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔄 Evolutionary Transitions 🌋 Origin Of Life ⏳ Deep Time 🌿 Natural History

Life Ascending 90%

Evolution's hardest problems, from life's origin to death itself, all have a chemical answer.

by Nick Lane 2009

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔄 Evolutionary Transitions 🌋 Origin Of Life ⏳ Deep Time 🌿 Natural History

Unweaving the Rainbow

by Richard Dawkins • 2000

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

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

Unweaving the Rainbow 90%

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

by Richard Dawkins 2000

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

How We Became Human

by Tim Dean • 2021

Your sense of right and wrong evolved for the Stone Age. It's time for an upgrade.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Cultural Evolution 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🏕️ Tribalism

How We Became Human 90%

Your sense of right and wrong evolved for the Stone Age. It's time for an upgrade.

by Tim Dean 2021

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 📜 Cultural Evolution 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🏕️ Tribalism

The Bonobo and the Atheist

by 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 90%

Chimps console, capuchins reject unfair pay; morality was ancient before religion claimed it.

by Frans de Waal 2013

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

A History of the Human Brain

by Bret Stetka • 2021

Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience 👥 Social Brain ⛏️ Paleoanthropology 🥑 Diet And Brain

A History of the Human Brain 90%

Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.

by Bret Stetka 2021

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience 👥 Social Brain ⛏️ Paleoanthropology 🥑 Diet And Brain

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 🗣️ Cultural Evolution 🧠 Memetics

Darwin's Dangerous Idea 90%

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

by Daniel C. Dennett 1995

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

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 🌍 Planetary Consciousness 🕯️ Christian Mysticism

The Phenomenon of Man 90%

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

by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1955

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

The Social Conquest of Earth

by Edward O. Wilson • 2012

Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🏛️ Multilevel Selection ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

The Social Conquest of Earth 90%

Human virtue and human genocide come from the same evolutionary force, and it's not kin selection.

by Edward O. Wilson 2012

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🏛️ Multilevel Selection ⚖️ Origins Of Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

The Science of Good and Evil

by Michael Shermer • 2004

Good and evil are evolutionary strategies, and science can decipher them.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Evolution Of Morality ✨ Secular Ethics 🔬 Moral Psychology 🕊️ Altruism

The Science of Good and Evil 90%

Good and evil are evolutionary strategies, and science can decipher them.

by Michael Shermer 2004

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Evolution Of Morality ✨ Secular Ethics 🔬 Moral Psychology 🕊️ Altruism

The Human Story

by Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2004

Gossip, laughter, gods: how the social brain made us human, and the number behind it.

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🦍 Human Evolution 🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Theory Of Mind 🗣️ Language Evolution 🎨 Symbolic Thinking

The Human Story 90%

Gossip, laughter, gods: how the social brain made us human, and the number behind it.

by Robin I.M. Dunbar 2004

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🦍 Human Evolution 🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Theory Of Mind 🗣️ Language Evolution 🎨 Symbolic Thinking

The Little Book of Humanism

by Andrew Copson • 2020

No afterlife, no divine plan, no sacred text. A humanist guide to the good life.

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🌍 Secular Humanism ⚖️ Secular Ethics ✨ Meaning Making 💀 Death Acceptance 🔍 Critical Thinking

The Little Book of Humanism 90%

No afterlife, no divine plan, no sacred text. A humanist guide to the good life.

by Andrew Copson 2020

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🌍 Secular Humanism ⚖️ Secular Ethics ✨ Meaning Making 💀 Death Acceptance 🔍 Critical Thinking

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

by Ken Wilber • 1995

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

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

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality 90%

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

by Ken Wilber 1995

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

Human Evolution

by Bernard Wood • 2005

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

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

Human Evolution 90%

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

by Bernard Wood 2005

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

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 🍄 Psychedelic Studies ✨ Entheogens

Food of the Gods 90%

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

by Terence McKenna 1992

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

The Origin of Language

by Madeleine Beekman • 2025

The demands of keeping helpless infants alive, not hunting or gossip, gave us language.

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🗣️ Evolutionary Linguistics 🦴 Human Origins 👶 Cooperative Breeding 🧠 Brain Evolution 🤝 Self-Domestication

The Origin of Language 90%

The demands of keeping helpless infants alive, not hunting or gossip, gave us language.

by Madeleine Beekman 2025

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🗣️ Evolutionary Linguistics 🦴 Human Origins 👶 Cooperative Breeding 🧠 Brain Evolution 🤝 Self-Domestication

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

by Daniel C. Dennett • 2013

A philosopher's toolbox: learn to think sharper about consciousness, evolution, and free will.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💭 Thought Experiments 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧫 Cultural Evolution 🕊️ Free Will Debate

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Summary

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking 90%

A philosopher's toolbox: learn to think sharper about consciousness, evolution, and free will.

by Daniel C. Dennett 2013

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 💭 Thought Experiments 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧫 Cultural Evolution 🕊️ Free Will Debate

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

by David M. Buss • 2005

Psychology describes how the mind works. Evolutionary psychology explains why it evolved that way.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Science 🧩 Modular Mind 🐾 Adaptationism 🌱 Nature Nurture Debate

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology Summary

The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology 90%

Psychology describes how the mind works. Evolutionary psychology explains why it evolved that way.

by David M. Buss 2005

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Science 🧩 Modular Mind 🐾 Adaptationism 🌱 Nature Nurture Debate

Evolution Controversy, The

by Thomas B. Fowler • 2007

Four schools, three definitions, one unspoken fight: the evolution controversy, surveyed.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🕊️ Science And Religion 🔍 Intelligent Design 📖 Creation Science 🔬 Philosophy Of Science

Evolution Controversy, The 90%

Four schools, three definitions, one unspoken fight: the evolution controversy, surveyed.

by Thomas B. Fowler 2007

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26 ratings

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🕊️ Science And Religion 🔍 Intelligent Design 📖 Creation Science 🔬 Philosophy Of Science

Science in the Soul

by Richard Dawkins • 2017

Your soul is your brain. Faith is a vice. Science is the only honest way to wonder.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Natural Selection ✝️ New Atheism 🧠 Scientific Rationalism 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Science in the Soul 90%

Your soul is your brain. Faith is a vice. Science is the only honest way to wonder.

by Richard Dawkins 2017

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Natural Selection ✝️ New Atheism 🧠 Scientific Rationalism 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Origins of Creativity

by Edward O. Wilson • 2017

The humanities cannot explain us without the deep evolutionary past that shaped our minds.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🎭 Two Cultures Debate 🗣️ Origins Of Language 🧠 Cognitive Evolution

The Origins of Creativity 90%

The humanities cannot explain us without the deep evolutionary past that shaped our minds.

by Edward O. Wilson 2017

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🦴 Human Evolution 🎭 Two Cultures Debate 🗣️ Origins Of Language 🧠 Cognitive Evolution

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 ⚡ Energy History 🦴 Human Origins

Big History 90%

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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561 ratings

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

Conscious Evolution

by Barbara Marx Hubbard • 1998

Humanity's next evolutionary step is not biological; it is a conscious choice we can make now.

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🌀 Evolutionary Spirituality 🌍 Social Transformation 🌏 Planetary Awakening 🧠 Memes And Culture 🌌 New Cosmology

Conscious Evolution 90%

Humanity's next evolutionary step is not biological; it is a conscious choice we can make now.

by Barbara Marx Hubbard 1998

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🌀 Evolutionary Spirituality 🌍 Social Transformation 🌏 Planetary Awakening 🧠 Memes And Culture 🌌 New Cosmology

The Dragons of Eden

by Carl Sagan • 1977

Your skull houses a reptile, a mammal, and a thinker, and they rarely get along.

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The Dragons of Eden 90%

Your skull houses a reptile, a mammal, and a thinker, and they rarely get along.

by Carl Sagan 1977

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Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You

by Agustín Fuentes • 2008

Three myths about human nature: race, aggression, sex. Science disproved them. Common sense hung on.

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🧬 Biological Anthropology 🌱 Nature Vs Nurture 🏗️ Social Construction 🔄 Human Evolution 🤝 Human Cooperation

Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You Summary

Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You 90%

Three myths about human nature: race, aggression, sex. Science disproved them. Common sense hung on.

by Agustín Fuentes 2008

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